Patent ID: 8740486

Claim:
A recording apparatus comprising: a feed unit that transports a recording medium from a setting position; a record head that performs recording on the recording medium; a first detection unit that detects passage of a rear end of the recording medium at a predetermined position on the downstream side of the feed unit; and a control unit that: controls the feed unit in an advance feed mode such that a next page of the recording medium is advanced from the setting position in a cassette to a predetermined position after the first detection unit detects passage of the rear end of a preceding page of the recording medium, wherein the control unit, at a predetermined timing after the first detection unit detects passage of the rear end of the recording medium and after the next page has been advanced to the predetermined position, synchronously transports the preceding page and the next page, wherein the predetermined timing is a time point when a first main scanning operation of the record head for the preceding page is completed after the rear end of the preceding page is detected by the first detection unit, and wherein the next page is advanced to the predetermined position during a reference time between the detection of the rear end of the preceding page and completion of the first main scanning operation.