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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 27, 2018
Filed:
Sep. 01, 2017
Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Atsushi Takei, Nagano, JP;
Yoshikane Tsuchihashi, Nagano, JP;
Yu Shinagawa, Nagano, JP;
Mitsuhiro Koseki, Nagano, JP;
Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A recording apparatus includes a recording head that includes a nozzle row which is provided with a plurality of nozzles discharging liquid to a medium along a transporting direction, and executes recording as one pass by discharging the liquid from the nozzles in accordance with movement in a scanning direction intersecting the transporting direction, a transporting unit that transports the medium to a position facing the nozzle row, and a controller that is capable of acquiring information relating to a length of the medium in the transporting direction and controls the recording head and the transporting unit, in which the controller determines the nozzle being used for a recording operation as one pass in the beginning in accordance with the acquired length of the medium, and executes a heading operation for feeding the medium to a position facing the determined nozzle.