Patent ID: 8777350

Claim:
A recording apparatus comprising: a recording unit that includes a nozzle line having a plurality of nozzles and performs recording on a recording medium by ejecting liquid from the nozzle while moving in a first direction crossing the direction of the nozzle line; a relative moving unit that relatively moves the recording unit and the recording medium in a second direction crossing the first direction; and a control unit that controls the recording unit and the relative moving unit, wherein the control unit controls the recording unit and the relative moving unit to perform: a first recording process that records a plurality of dot lines in which dots are aligned in a row direction that is parallel with a main scanning direction by ejecting liquid from the nozzles while the recording unit is moved and sub-scanning that relatively moves the recording unit and the recording medium in the second direction, the plurality of dot lines forming a plurality of row recording regions that are set at positions deviated from each other in both the main scanning direction and a sub-scanning direction transverse to the main scanning direction; a second recording process that records another dot line in a present row recording region that is adjacent, in the same line, to one of the plurality of row recording regions where the dot line is recorded in the first process by alternately performing the main scanning and the sub-scanning, and to repeat the second recording process, with the present mw recording region of the previous second recording process as the previous row recording region.