Recording apparatus and recording method

A recording method for a recording apparatus that includes a transport unit capable of transporting a medium, a detection unit capable of detecting a transport direction in which the transport unit transports the medium, and a recording unit capable of performing recording on the medium transported by the transport unit, the recording unit comprising a head that ejects liquid from nozzles onto the medium, wherein the detection unit is provided upstream of the recording unit in the transport direction, the recording method comprising:

• controlling, on an individual basis and on the basis of a result of detection by the detection unit, rotation of each of a plurality of rotating bodies disposed downstream of the recording unit and that are provided in an intersecting direction that intersects the transport direction and that are capable of contacting a side surface of the medium opposite to a recording surface of the medium on which recording is performed by the recording unit and that each have a rotation shaft that extends in the intersecting direction, each rotating body passively rotating from movement of the medium transported along the rotating body until rotation is controlled on the basis of the result of detection by the detection unit;
• transporting the medium;
• and
• performing recording on the medium.