Controller, control method, and image recording device

A control method for an image recording device, the image recording device including:

• a carriage capable of moving in a first direction;
• a head which is mounted on the carriage and which is configured to discharges a liquid from a nozzle;
• and a wiper capable of being impregnated with a cleaning liquid, a nozzle surface of the head including a first region not having the nozzle and a second region having the nozzle,
• the control method comprising:
• executing a pressing-against processing of abutting the wiper on the first region in a state in which a speed of a relative movement in the first direction between the carriage and the wiper is a first speed;
• and then
• executing a moving processing of moving the carriage and the wiper relative to each other in the first direction at a second speed faster than the first speed, while abutting the wiper on the second region, after the executing of the pressing-against processing, contact between the wiper and the head being maintained from an end of the pressing-against processing to a beginning of the moving processing.