Recording apparatus, control method, and storage medium

An image recording apparatus, comprising:

• a recording unit configured to record an image by applying a recording material to a recording medium;
• an execution unit configured to execute relative scanning of the recording unit and the recording medium with respect to a unit region on the recording medium;
• and
• a recovery unit configured to perform a recovery operation for maintaining or recovering a recording performance of the recording unit for application of the recording material,
• wherein, based on a value corresponding to a number of dots recorded after the recovery operation performed last time and based on a number of times of the relative scanning for completion of an image at a unit region of an (n+1)-th page, the recovery unit performs the recovery operation at a timing that is after recording of an n-th page but before recording of the (n+1)-th page, where the n is a natural number,
• wherein
• in a case of a one-pass mode, in which the number of times of the scanning for completion of the image at the unit region of the (n+1)-th page is once, the recovery unit performs the recovery operation when the value is greater than a first threshold,
• in a case of a multi-pass mode, in which the number of times of the scanning for completion of the image at the unit region of the (n+1)-th page is twice or more, the recovery unit performs the recovery operation when the value is greater than a second threshold, and
• the first threshold is greater than the second threshold.