PURPOSE: To obtain a recording apparatus preventing matter unnecessary for recording from penetrating into the transfer region of a recording material to a material to be recorded and always performing good recording. CONSTITUTION: A printing head 70A is moved in an F-direction with respect to printing paper 50 at a time of recording and a liquefied dye 22 is evaporated in the evaporation structure 101 provided to the insulating plate 73 being the surface layer of the printing head and flown to the printing paper 50 to perform recording. A dye liquid stop part 97 is provided on the surface of the insulating plate 73 so as to surround the evaporation structure 101 and a narrow projection 91 is further provided so as to surround the dye liquid stop part 97. The projection 91 comes into contact with the printing paper 50 and functions as a spacer holding a predetermined distance between the evaporation structure 101 and the printing paper 50. A groove 99A is provided on the downstream side of the projection 91 in contact with the downstream part 91a in the moving direction F of the projection 91.