Patent ID: 8767224

Claim:
A printer comprising: a transport unit which transports paper from upstream to downstream; a head which prints a first image then prints a second image upstream of the first image on the paper, the first and second images being continuous on the paper; and a cutter which cuts the paper, wherein the cutter cuts using two modes: a first mode in which the cutter cuts the paper once between the first and second images, or a second mode in which the cutter cuts the paper twice, once upstream of a boundary between the first image and the second image and once downstream of the boundary, where difference of a color value of a predetermined region in the first image and a color value of a predetermined region in the second image is within a predetermined range, the cutter cuts the paper using the first mode, wherein a size of the paper which is cut by the cutter using the second mode is specified based on a predetermined color value of the first image and the second image.