A recording apparatus has a buffer for dividing a storage area into a plurality of areas in a scanning direction of a recording head to record data by allowing a carriage loaded with the recording head to scan data on a record medium, and storing the divided image data in a divided area unit, and includes: a write control unit for controlling write address information about image data in the area unit for data of each color for storage of the image data divided in an area unit in the buffer; a read control unit for controlling for data of each color read address information for a read of image data stored in the buffer; and a record data generation unit for generating record data in a unit of the divided area based on the read image data according to the read address information.