Image forming apparatus

An image forming apparatus comprising:

• a motor;
• a movable body configured to be moved by the motor along a predetermined moving direction;
• a recording head mounted on the movable body and configured to jet ink onto a sheet while being moved together with the movable body to form an image on the sheet;
• an ink receiving unit configured to receive the ink jetted from the recoding head at a time of executing a flushing and fixed so as not to be moved together with a movement of the movable body;
• a detection target fixed directly or indirectly to the ink receiving unit;
• a detector mounted on the movable body and configured to detect the detection target;
• an encoder configured to output a signal in accordance with a rotation amount of the motor or a moving amount of the movable body;
• a position detecting section configured to detect a position of the movable body based on the signal outputted from the encoder;
• and
• a controller,
• wherein the controller is configured to execute:
• a moving processing for moving the movable body along the moving direction;
• a position obtaining processing for obtaining a position, of the movable body, from the position detecting section in a case that the detection target is detected by the detector during the movement of the movable body in the moving processing;
• a determining processing for determining a start timing of the flushing based on the position, of the movable body, obtained in the position obtaining processing;
• and
• a flushing processing for starting the flushing in accordance with the start timing determined in the determining processing.