Patent ID: 8070285

Claim:
A recording device comprising: a recording head which performs a recording operation on a recording medium; a transport member which has a plurality of through holes arranged therein and transports the recording medium; and a suction unit which has a suction force generating section for generating a suction force for sucking air and a plurality of communication channels for communicating the suction force generating section with the respective through holes and generates a suction force in the through holes to suck the recording medium onto the transport member, wherein on an upstream side of a recording area in a transport direction, a suction force at a center in a direction perpendicular to the transport direction of the recording medium is larger than a suction force at opposite ends, wherein the suction unit includes flow rate adjusting sections arranged to correspond to the through holes and provided to decrease a channel cross-sectional area of the communication channels corresponding to the through holes which are opened, as compared to a channel cross-sectional area of the communication channels corresponding to the through holes which are blocked by the recording medium.