Printing apparatus and printing control device

1. A printing apparatus comprising:

a conveying device which conveys a record medium in a conveyance direction;

a cutter which cuts out the record medium;

a printing unit which prints an image on the record medium;

a mark detector which detects reference marks indicating page start-positions of the record medium;

a receiver which receives record medium type information; and

a controller programed to, based on a content of the record medium type information, switch a cut position to be cut with the cutter between a first position being a position upstream in the conveyance direction by a predetermined one-page length from each of the page start positions and a second position being a position shifted in the conveyance direction by a prescribed length from the first position, wherein

when the record medium type information indicates that the record medium contains a half-cut line formed at each of the page start positions of the record medium, the controller sets the cut position to the second position such that the record medium is cut at a position shifted toward a leading end of the recording medium by the prescribed length from each of the half-cut lines of the record medium.

2. The printing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein

a first cut length being a length from the page start position to the first position is equal to the one-page length, and

a second cut length being a length from the page start position to the second position is shorter than the one-page length.

3. The printing apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein the controller obtains the second cut length by subtracting the prescribed length from the first cut length or by multiplying the first cut length by a predetermined coefficient.

4. The printing apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein a differential value obtained by subtracting the second cut length from the first cut length is 3 mm or more.

5. The printing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the cutter is provided upstream of the printing unit in the conveyance direction.

6. The printing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the cutter cuts the medium completely in the thickness of the recording medium and in the width of the recording medium.

7. The printing apparatus according to claim 1 , comprising no half-cut cutter.

8. The printing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein

when the record medium type information indicates that the record medium that is supported by a medium supporter and is to be conveyed by the conveying device, contains the half-cut line formed at each of the page start positions of the record medium, the controller sets the cut position to the second position such that the record medium is cut at the position shifted toward the leading end of the recording medium by the prescribed length from each of the half-cut lines of the record medium.

9. The printing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein a length of each of the cut record media except for a first one of the cut record media in the conveyance direction is the same as the predetermined one-page length.