To provide a recording device capable of being constructed small and at low cost by making its cam link mechanism in a small size.

The recording device 10 is equipped with an aligning plate 360 to make alignment of a recorded object 100 by advancing to the position intercepting the transport path of the recorded object 100 and changing the direction while the leading edge of the recorded object 100 abuts, a recorded object hold-down part 32 to press the recorded object 100 to a magnetic head 410 when the magnetic head 410 scans magnetic stripes 110, and a first cam 390 as a plate-form cam rotating round a cam shaft 394 and moving the aligning plate 360 with one of a cam groove and a cam rib provided on the two sides in the direction of the cam shaft 394 and also moving the hold-down part 32 with the other.