Patent ID: 7039354

Claim:
A printer comprising: a transport path including a predetermined paper feed start position and a predetermined paper discharge completion position, wherein a paper is continuously transported along the transport path; a processing unit for performing a predetermined process on the paper, wherein the transport path is divided into a plurality of transport sections in the middle of the processing unit; a plurality of transport abnormality detection units for detecting transport abnormality of the paper in the transport sections, respectively; a transport page state judgment unit for judging state of the paper in each of transport sections; and a recovery printing control unit, wherein when one of the transport abnormality detection units detects the transport abnormality of the paper in one of the transport sections, the recovery printing control unit sets content of a transported page of the paper present in the one of the transport sections and content of a page following to the transported page as contents to be printed thereafter, and resumes printing from the content of the transported page of the paper, which was present in the one of the transport sections when the one of the transport abnormality detection units detected the transport abnormality of the paper.