Feeding unit and printer

A printer comprising:

• a set of a first printing unit and a second printing unit, each of the first and the second printing units including:
• a holding unit that holds a long strip-like recording medium in a wound state;
• a recording unit that executes a recording operation for the recording medium pulled out from the holding unit;
• and
• a cutter unit that cuts the long strip-like recording medium for which a recording operation is executed by the recording unit;
• a sorting part that sorts the recording medium cut off by the cutter unit of the first printing unit, to a side of the second printing unit stacked on the printing unit and having an identical configuration as that of the first printing unit, or to a position different from the side of the second printing unit;
• a guiding part that guides the recording medium sorted by the sorting part to the side of the second printing unit, to be supplied to a position to which a second recording medium held by the holding unit of the second printing unit is pulled out, the guiding part guiding the recording medium along a direction identical to a direction to pull out the second recording medium;
• and
• a feeding part that accommodates the recording medium sorted to the position different from the side of the second printing unit by the sorting part, the feeding part accommodating the recording medium until a tail end of the recording medium passes through the sorting part, the feeding part feeding the recording medium to the guiding part starting with the tail end, when the tail end passes through the sorting part, wherein
• the sorting part sorts the recording medium fed by the feeding part, to the side of the second printing unit.