Patent ID: 7033015

Claim:
An inkjet printer comprising: an inkjet head that ejects ink onto a printing medium to form an image thereon; a conveyance belt that defines on an outer circumferential surface thereof a groove extending in a direction intersecting with a conveyance direction; a conveyance mechanism that drives the conveyance belt to travel in the conveyance direction and in a direction opposite to the conveyance direction; a cutting mechanism that is disposed downstream in the conveyance direction with respect to the conveyance belt and cuts the printing medium; a control unit that controls at least the conveyance mechanism and the cutting mechanism; and a judgment unit that, after the cutting mechanism cuts the printing medium, judges whether or not a cut position of the printing medium will be located in a predetermined region of the conveyance belt if the conveyance mechanism drives the conveyance belt to convey the printing medium in the direction opposite to the conveyance direction, wherein: the predetermined region of the conveyance belt includes the groove; when the judgment unit judges that the cut position of the printing medium will be located in the predetermined region, the control unit controls the conveyance mechanism to convey the printing medium on the conveyance belt in the conveyance direction and subsequently controls the cutting mechanism to cut the printing medium; and when the judgment unit judges that the cut position of the printing medium will not be located in the predetermined region, the control unit controls the conveyance mechanism to convey the printing medium on the conveyance belt in the direction opposite to the conveyance direction.