Patent ID: 7190492

Claim:
A control method of a serial recording system printer which continuously records a plurality of pages on a continuous recording sheet repeatedly fed/stopped and conveyed, the method comprising the steps of: disposing a cutter on a downstream side of a print head for recording an image on the continuous recording sheet in a conveyance direction of the continuous recording sheet, a position of the cutter being able to be changed in the conveyance direction; assuming that a print end signal indicating a terminal end position of the page to be cut from the continuous recording sheet is a start point; obtaining a conveyance distance (αn) by a product of a conveyance step width (α) and the number (n) of repetitions of the conveyance step; changing the position of the cutter so that a distance (A) to a cut position of the cutter from a print end position of a terminal end of the page agrees with the conveyance distance (αn), thereby positioning the cutter so that the cutter is matched with the dimension of the page; and cutting the continuous recording sheet being stopped.