Patent ID: 8794732

Claim:
A media processing device that can connect to a control device and comprises: a storage unit that can hold a plurality of media; a conveyance path that connects to the storage unit and conveys the media; a plurality of discharge units that can connect to the conveyance path and receive media discharged from the conveyance path; a switching unit that changes the discharge unit into which the media are discharged; a conveyance unit that conveys the media from the storage unit through the conveyance path to the discharge unit; a recording unit that is disposed to the conveyance path and records on the media conveyed by the conveyance unit; and a process control unit that controls the switching unit, conveyance unit, and recording unit, wherein when the length in the conveyance direction of an image to be recorded on the medium is greater than the length of a recording area determined by the length of the medium in the conveyance direction, the process control unit records the part of the image that will fit in the recording area with the recording unit, causes the switching unit to change the discharge unit so that media are discharged into different discharge units depending on whether the length of the recording area is shorter or longer than the image length, and then conveys the next medium stored in the storage unit with the conveyance unit.