Recording device and method for drying recording medium

A method for drying a recording medium in a recording device including a transport unit configured to alternately repeat transport and stop of a recording medium, a recording head configured to discharge ink onto the recording medium to form an image while the recording medium is stopped in an image forming region, and a drying unit including a plate in which a plurality of openings for blowing an air flow are formed in a position facing the recording medium transported by the transport unit, and being configured to dry the recording medium on which an image is formed by the recording head, the method comprising:

• moving the recording medium and the plate relatively in an intersecting direction that intersects a facing direction in which the recording medium and the plate face each other, while the recording medium is stopped in the image forming region,
• wherein an amount of displacement by the relative movement unit is different from a distance being an integral multiple of a distance between each of the plurality of openings in the intersecting direction.