Patent ID: 8020958

Claim:
A recording apparatus comprising: a conveyor mechanism including a plurality of rollers, an endless conveyor belt that is stretched between the rollers and has an outer circumferential surface for a recording medium to be placed thereon, and a driver that drives the conveyor belt; a placer that places the recording medium onto the outer circumferential surface of the conveyor belt; a recording head that records an image on the recording medium being conveyed by the conveyor mechanism; a controller that controls the conveyor mechanism, the placer, and the recording head; and a table memory, wherein: the controller determines a desired speed, which is a desired value of a driving speed of the conveyor belt during a recording, to be either one of a predetermined first speed and a second speed lower than the first speed; the controller controls the conveyor mechanism so as to make the conveyor belt start driving and drive constantly at the desired speed, controls the placer so as to make the recording medium placed onto the outer circumferential surface of the conveyor belt after a driving speed of the conveyor belt reaches the desired speed, and controls the recording head so as to make an image recorded on the recording medium while the recording medium is being conveyed by the conveyor belt driven constantly at the desired speed; the controller determines the desired speed for a first recording medium to be recorded based on a record command, to be the second speed; the controller controls the recording head for a recording at the first speed after controlling the recording head for a recording at the second speed without stopping the conveyor mechanism; in a continuous recording with a continuous recording number equal to or smaller than q (which represents a predetermined positive integer), the controller determines the desired speed for a first recording medium to be the second speed; the table memory stores therein a table representing a plurality of different continuous recording numbers and desired speeds corresponding to the respective continuous recording numbers; and the controller determines the desired speed with reference to the table stored in the table memory.