Patent ID: 8059283

Claim:
A recording apparatus comprising: a transporting unit which transports a recording medium; a recording unit which performs a recording on the recording medium on the basis of recording data; a control unit which controls the recording unit and the transporting unit; a detection unit which detects a back end of the recording medium at a more upstream side of a transporting path than a recording position of the recording unit; a first judgment unit which judges whether a scheduled recording is possible when the recording medium which is in the middle of transportation reaches a position where the recording should be performed when the detection unit detects the back end of the recording medium; and a second judgment unit which judges whether a portion of the scheduled recording to the recording medium is possible when the recording medium is transported to the position where the recording should be performed; wherein the control unit continues to transport the recording medium even if the first judgment unit judges that the recording is impossible and performs a partial recording on the recording medium which is transported to the position where the recording should be performed if the second judgment unit judges that the partial recording is possible, wherein even in the case in which a marginal recording is set as a recording condition, the second judgment unit judges after the detecting unit detects a back end of the recording medium whether a portion of the scheduled recording would be possible if the marginal setting is changed to a marginless recording with respect to a real size of the recording medium detected by the detection unit, and wherein the control unit performs a portion of the scheduled recording in a marginless recording setting if it is determined by the second judgment unit to be possible.