Patent ID: 7632030

Claim:
A recording apparatus, comprising: a carriage including a recording head that records an image on a recording medium; a movement unit that reciprocally moves the carriage in a main scanning direction with reference to a position of a point of origin provided at one end within a movable region of the carriage; a carriage detection unit that detects at least one of a travel distance and movement/stoppage of the carriage; a point-of-origin detection unit that detects the position of a point of origin of the carriage; a regulation unit provided at a first distance away from the point of origin within the movable region of the carriage, wherein the regulation unit is displaceable between a contact position where movement of the carriage is restricted as a result of coming into contact with the carriage and a spaced position where movement of the carriage is allowed as a result of being spaced apart from the carriage; and a control unit that selectably performs one of a first initialization processing and a second initialization processing requiring a longer time than that required by the first initialization processing, after the point-of-origin detection unit detects the position of origin; wherein the control unit selects one of the first initialization processing and the second initialization processing on the basis of whether movement of the carriage is restricted and whether a travel distance of the carriage is within a predetermined range, when the movement unit moves the carriage from a position of origin, if the movement of the carriage is restricted and if the control unit selects the first initializing processing, the movement unit does not move the carriage back to the position of origin during the first initialization processing, the predetermined range is within a distance from the point of origin to the contact position, wherein the predetermined range corresponds to a range between a position determined by subtracting a specific distance from a second distance and a position determined by adding the specific distance to the second distance, and wherein the second distance is determined by subtracting a width of the carriage from the first distance.