Patent ID: 7940289

Claim:
A printer having a pulse motor for feeding a recording medium, comprising: a printing head that prints information items onto the recording medium; a printer controller for controlling the print head; a first counter for counting an elapsed time after a printing process is started; a second counter for counting operating time of the pulse motor; a determining unit determining a rest level based on times counted by the first and second counters; and a controller that sets a rest time based on the rest level determined by the determining unit and controls the pulse motor to perform a rest process based on the thus set rest time, wherein the determining unit determines that a rest level is to be raised in a case where, while a predetermined time counted by the first counter is set as one segment, the time counted by the second counter is not shorter than a preset time in the segment and determines that a rest level is to be raised in a case where the time counted by the second counter is not shorter than the preset time in two segments counted by the first counter.