Patent ID: 8439346

Claim:
A method of feeding a medium in a recording apparatus, the method comprising: feeding a first medium to a preliminary feed start position using a feeding unit; determining that a trailing end of the first medium has reached the preliminary feed start position using a trailing end determining unit; determining whether or not a leading end of a second medium is located at a target position in the recording apparatus using a leading end determining unit in response to determining that the trailing end of the first medium has reached the preliminary feed start position; wherein when the second medium is determined to have not reached the target position, performing a preliminary feeding operation to start feeding the second medium by driving the feeding unit, and when the second medium is determined to have already reached the target position, causing the driving of the feeding unit for the preliminary feeding operation to not be performed and blocking the feeding of the second medium using a medium returning unit that is configured to switch between an open position to open a transport path of the first and second mediums and a closed position to close the transport path so that the second medium is not transported toward a downstream side of the recording apparatus in a feeding direction; and wherein when the preliminary feeding operation is performed, calculating a gap between the first medium and the second medium on the basis of a first value using a controller comprising a memory and processor connected to the leading end determining unit and the trailing end determining unit, and when the preliminary feeding operation is not performed, calculating the gap on the basis of a second value using the controller, the second value being a value that is used to calculate the gap when the leading end of the second medium is regarded as being restricted by the medium returning unit in the closed position.