Patent ID: 7393075

Claim:
A recording apparatus for recording by relatively moving a recording head with respect to a recording medium, comprising: medium conveying means having a LF roller, for conveying a recording medium in a conveyance path including a recording position where recording is performed by the recording head; medium feeding means for picking up a recording medium from a housing unit housing a plurality of recording media and conveying the picked-upped recording medium in the conveyance path to a position that said medium conveying means can convey the recording medium; determining means for determining whether or not image recording for a next recording medium is necessary during recording of a current recording medium being recorded at the time; and control means for, in a case where it is determined by said determining means that the image recording for the next recording medium is necessary, controlling said medium feeding means to feed the next recording medium for a distance in the conveyance path, corresponding to a conveyance distance of the current recording medium by said medium conveying means, in synchronization with the conveyance of the current recording medium by said medium conveying means, until the next recording medium has been conveyed to a predetermined position at the upper stream side of the LF roller, wherein the conveyance distance corresponds to a width that already has been recorded on the current recording medium.