Patent ID: 7997678

Claim:
A recording apparatus, comprising: a recording head configured to discharge ink to record an image; a detection unit including a light-emitting element that emits light and a light-receiving element that receives the light emitted by the light-emitting element, wherein the detection unit is configured to detect a discharge state of the ink of the recording head by detecting whether the ink discharged from the recording head blocks the light emitted by the light-emitting element at the light-receiving element; a counting unit configured to count a discharge number of ink discharged from the recording head after the detection unit performs a previous detection operation; and a control unit configured to, in a case where it is determined that a discharge number counted by the counting unit is larger than a threshold dot count value, cause the detection unit to perform a next detection operation, and change the threshold dot count value according to a total number of ink discharges from the recording head.