Image recording apparatus

An image recording apparatus, comprising:

• a carriage supporting an image recorder;
• a driving member configured to move the carriage along a moving path;
• a detector configured to detect a position of the carriage in the moving path and presence or absence of a stop of the carriage;
• a first load applier configured to apply a first load to the carriage moving in a first direction, by contacting the carriage moving in the first direction in a first load region of the moving path;
• a second load applier configured to apply a second load, different from the first load, to the carriage moving in the first direction in a second load region located downstream of the first load region in the first direction in the moving path;
• and
• a controller configured to control the driving member,
• wherein a peak load that is a highest load applied to the carriage moving in the first direction in the first load region is highest at a first highest-load position of the first load region, and the peak load is restored at the first highest-load position when the carriage is moved to a position located downstream of the first highest-load position in the first direction, thereafter moved, in a second direction opposed to the first direction, over a restoration position located downstream of the first highest-load position in the second direction, and thereafter moved in the first direction again,
• wherein the second load is highest at a second highest-load position of the second load region,
• wherein the controller is configured to execute:
• a moving processing in which the controller moves the carriage from a position located upstream of the first load region in the first direction, toward a target position located downstream of the second load region in the first direction;
• and
• a retry processing in which the controller moves the carriage to the target position again when the detector detects a stop of the carriage in the moving processing, and a stop position of the carriage which is detected by the detector is different from the target position, and
• wherein in the retry processing, when the stop position of the carriage which is detected by the detector is located between the first highest-load position and the second highest-load position, the controller moves the carriage in the first direction toward the target position after moving the carriage from the stop position in the second direction to a first retry position located downstream of the restoration position in the first direction.