Patent ID: 8827440

Claim:
A printer comprising a recording unit and a reversing unit, wherein the recording unit includes: a first recording medium holding unit that holds a rolled recording medium such that the recording medium can be pulled out from an outer peripheral aspect; a recording unit that pulls out the recording medium held by the first recording medium holding unit, transports the pulled out recording medium through a first recording medium transportation path extending from the first recording medium holding unit to a first recording medium ejection position, and performs a recording operation on the recording medium on transportation; and a first recording medium cutting unit that cuts the recording medium transported through the first recording medium transportation path by the recording unit, at a given position before the recording medium reaches the first recording medium ejection position, and the reversing unit includes: a second recording medium holding unit that holds a sheet-like recording medium; a sheet feeding unit that pulls out the sheet-like recording medium held by the second recording medium holding unit to a second recording medium transportation path extending from the second recording medium holding unit to the first recording medium transportation path, the sheet feeding unit feeding the pulled out sheet-like recording medium to the first recording medium transportation path; and a recording medium reversing unit that with respect to the sheet-like recording medium ejected from the recording unit to a third recording medium transportation path of which both ends are continuous with the first recording medium transportation path, switches relative to a recording position of the recording unit, the side of the sheet-like recording medium to be subject to recording, and feeds the sheet-like recording medium to the first recording medium transportation path, wherein the recording unit performs a recording operation on the sheet-like recording medium that has been fed to the first recording medium transportation path by the sheet feeding unit and on the sheet-like recording medium that has been subject to switching by the recording medium reversing unit and fed to the first recording medium transportation path.