Patent ID: 8764322

Claim:
A recording device comprising: a recording unit that records on a recording medium; a transportation unit that conveys and discharges from a discharge opening the recording medium recorded on by the recording unit; a cutting unit that cuts the recording medium recorded on by the recording unit at a predetermined position on a transportation path of the transportation unit; and a control unit that causes a string of two or more tickets to be output by causing the recording unit to record on the recording medium while causing the transportation unit to convey the recording medium a specified ticket length for each of the two or more tickets and causing the cutting unit to cut between the tickets of at least one adjacent pair of the two or more tickets, and when a final ticket of the two or more tickets is output, causes the final ticket to be conveyed a preset additional transportation distance, and then cut by the cutting unit, wherein a length of the final ticket is longer than the specified ticket length.