Patent ID: 8469477

Claim:
A recording device comprising: a recording head that records an image on a recording medium; a transportation unit that conveys the recording medium; a cutter unit that cuts the recording medium on which image data for the image is recorded by the recording head; a control unit that controls the recording head, the cutter unit, and the transportation unit; and an image storage unit that stores the image data for the image recorded on the recording medium; wherein the control unit conveys the recording medium using the transportation unit, causes the recording head to record the image on the recording medium based on the image data stored in the image storage unit, stops conveyance by the transportation unit and cuts the recording medium using the cutter unit at a specific recording position in the image recorded by the recording head, and when cutting the recording medium ends, conveys the recording medium a specific length in reverse using the transportation unit, and then, with the recording medium conveyed the specific length, resumes recording the image by the recording head including within a portion of the image already recorded before conveying the recording medium stopped.