To enable several-month time cards to be collectively issued, while omitting monthly card issue labor, by devising a control method relating to use period information for printing a card use period.

A time recorder comprises: a clock calendar part 42; a card reading part 41 for reading a card ID from a card material 30' having the card ID; a printing part 46 for printing a card number on the card material 30' read by the card reading part 41; and a control part 45 for determining whether or not a card-number-printed time card 30 is the time card 30 used initially after the print of the card number is carried out, and controlling print based on use period information created on the basis of closing day information of a card user and clock calendar information output from the clock calendar part 42, when determining that the card-number-printed time card 30 is the time card 30 used initially after the print of the card number is carried out.