Patent ID: 8100522

Claim:
A recording apparatus comprising: a supporting member that has a supporting surface for supporting a target to which a liquid is ejected; a heating apparatus that heats the supporting member; a transport unit that transports the target from an upstream side of the supporting member to a downstream side while sliding the target on the supporting surface; and a recording unit that, when a direction in which the target supported on the supporting surface is transported is a main scanning direction, repeatedly performs a moving operation in the main scanning direction in which the liquid is ejected to a recording area of the target to perform recording and a moving operation in a sub-scanning direction in which no liquid is ejected, thereby performing recording on the recording area of the target, wherein, when the supporting member is heated by the heating apparatus, the supporting member includes a high temperature region having a relatively high temperature and a low temperature region having a relatively low temperature in the supporting surface, the transport unit transports the target that is supported on the supporting surface so as to be laid across the high temperature region and the low temperature region at least one time during a period from the start of the ejection of the liquid to the recording area to the end of the ejection of the liquid to the entire recording area by the recording unit, and a movement distance of the target transported by one transport operation is less than the width of the low temperature region in the transport direction.