Patent ID: 7770879

Claim:
A recording medium transport apparatus, comprising: a plurality of storage units that store a recording medium; a transport unit that takes the recording medium from one of the plurality of storage units and transports the recording medium to a recording position where an image is recorded on a recording face of the recording medium; a memory that stores a reference position of a recording medium that has been prescribed for each of the storage units as a position in the direction parallel to the recording face and orthogonal to the transport direction of the recording medium; a measuring unit that measures a position in the direction parallel to the recording face and orthogonal to the transport direction of the recording medium transported by the transport unit; and a movement unit that reads the reference position corresponding to the storage unit, in which the recording medium transported by the transport unit was stored, from the memory, and moves the recording medium according to the difference between the read reference position and the position measured by the measuring unit such that the position of the recording medium approaches the read reference position when the recording medium is located upstream of the recording position in the transport direction of the recording medium.