Patent ID: 7134658

Claim:
A recording apparatus comprising: a paper feeder configured to set a plurality of single sheets of paper therein; a paper delivery device having a paper delivery roller for transporting a sheet of paper fed from said paper feeder to a recorder; and a control unit for controlling operation of said paper feeder and said paper delivery device; wherein said paper feeder and paper delivery device are configured to conduct a skew removal that a paper tip of a sheet of paper fed by said paper feeder is once bitten into the paper delivery roller and then ejected therefrom by reversely rotating said paper delivery roller before delivering the sheet of paper to the recorder by forwardly rotating the paper delivery roller; and said control unit comprises a skew removal mode where the skew removal is executed to a sheet of paper whose margin dimension in data to execute recording is smaller than a reference value and a skew removal suppression mode where a sheet of paper whose margin dimension is larger than the reference value is delivered to the recorder without executing the skew removal.