Recording apparatus

A recording apparatus comprising:

• a transport mechanism having an adhesive belt configured and arranged to support a target recording medium thereon to intermittently transport the target recording medium;
• and
• a plurality of cleaning sections arranged from an upstream side to a downstream side along the adhesive belt in a moving direction to clean the adhesive belt by abutting against the adhesive belt,
• wherein a distance between the cleaning sections is different to a transport distance of the target recording medium which is transported by a single time of intermittent transporting of the target recording medium and is also different to a cumulative transport distance of the target recording medium which is transported by a plurality of times of intermittent transporting of the target recording medium, and
• the transport mechanism is configured and arranged to transport the target recording medium by a single transport distance which is determined in advance as the transport distance of the target recording medium which is transported by a single time of the intermittent transporting
• the distance between the cleaning sections being a distance between portions of the cleaning sections that abut against the adhesive belt and being a non-integer multiple of the transport distance of the target recording medium which is transported by a single time of the intermittent transporting.