A printer (100) includes a recording medium holding unit (201) that holds a long, wound strip-like recording medium so as to enable the recording medium to be pulled out starting with a front end on the outer circumference side thereof, a recording unit (203) that pulls out the recording medium held by the recording medium holding unit (201) to a side higher in a vertical direction than a position for pulling out from the recording medium holding unit (201) and that executes a recording operation for the pulled-out recording medium, and a second cutter mechanism (221) that is disposed beneath the recording medium holding unit (201) in the vertical direction and that cuts the recording medium for which the recording operation is executed by the recording unit (203) at the back end thereof separated from the front end by a predetermined length. A drawing position of the recording medium into an inversion path (219) is arranged to be lower than the recording medium holding unit (201) and the recording unit (203) in the vertical direction.