Patent ID: 8147056

Claim:
A recording apparatus for recording an image on a recording medium, the recording being performed with a main scanning operation for scanning a recording head for discharging ink in a main scanning direction and by a sub scanning operation for sub scanning the recording medium in a sub scanning direction by using a roller provided downstream of the recording head in the sub scanning direction that is different from the main scanning direction, the recording apparatus comprising: a control unit that controls both the main scanning operation and the sub scanning operation such that a time period from a time when recording of a predetermined area of the recording medium is completed until a time when the predetermined area contacts the roller is longer than a predetermined time, wherein the control unit executes, in a case where, after an image to be recorded is recorded in the predetermined area within a page of the recording medium, recording data corresponding to the image to be recorded does not exist within the page of the recording medium, repeating the main scanning operation and the sub scanning operation, which do not accompany the recording of an image on the recording medium during the time period from the time when the recording of the predetermined area within the page of the recording medium is completed until the time when the predetermined area contacts the roller, such that the time period until the time when the predetermined area contacts the roller is longer than the predetermined time, and discharges the recording medium without the main scanning operation after the predetermined area contacts the roller.