Patent ID: 8387978

Claim:
A recording apparatus including a feeding device for feeding a previous medium, which is fed first, and a next medium, which is fed after the previous medium, a transporting device for transporting the previous medium and the next medium fed by the feeding device, and a recording device for recording data on the previous medium and the next medium transported by the transporting device, the recording apparatus comprising: a control device which controls a transportation of the medium by controlling the feeding device and the transporting device; and an ejecting device for ejecting the medium and which is synchronized with the transporting device; wherein, first, the previous medium is transported by the feeding device and the transporting device at a first transporting speed to a predetermined position where the previous medium is no longer being transported by the feeding device, and the previous medium is transported only by the transporting device, second, the feeding device is decelerated so that a gap between the previous medium and the next medium becomes a predetermined distance, and third, the next medium is accelerated by the feeding device and the next medium is transported by the feeding device at a second transporting speed, different from the first, so as to continuously transport the previous medium and the next medium; and wherein, the control device controls to change the speed of the transporting device from the first transporting speed to the second transporting speed when the previous medium passes through the predetermined position, in response to a condition that the first transporting speed of the previous medium by the feeding device and the transporting device is different from the second transporting speed of the next medium by the feeding device.