Image recording apparatus, controller used for the image recording apparatus and storage medium storing program for the controller

An image recording apparatus comprising:

• a recording portion configured to record an image on a recording medium;
• a conveying member which has a surface opposed to the recording portion and which is configured to convey the recording medium in a conveying direction by a movement of the surface of the conveying member in the conveying direction with the recording medium supported by the surface thereof;
• a wiper which has an end portion contactable with the surface of the conveying member and which is configured to remove a foreign matter on the surface of the conveying member by a relative movement of the wiper to the surface of the conveying member with the end portion of the wiper and the surface of the conveying member in contact with each other;
• a changing mechanism configured to change a state of the wiper between a first state in which the end portion of the wiper is in contact with the surface of the conveying member and a second state in which the end portion of the wiper is distant from the surface of the conveying member,
• a wiping operation executing portion configured to execute a wiping operation in which at least one of the wiper and the conveying member is driven such that, after the end portion of the wiper distant from the surface of the conveying member comes into contact with a clean area, the end portion of the wiper reaches outside of the clean area, wherein the clean area is a part of the surface of the conveying member and has a smaller amount of the foreign matter adhering thereto compared to the other part of the surface, and
• a pre-cleaning operation executing portion configured to execute a pre-cleaning operation, before the wiping operation is executed, in which the clean area is produced by performing of a pre-cleaning in which the foreign matter on the surface of the conveying member is removed,
• wherein the pre-cleaning operation executing portion is configured to move the end portion of the wiper relative to the surface of the conveying member to produce the clean area when the state of the wiper is in the first state in which the end portion of the wiper and the surface of the conveying member are in contact with each other,
• wherein pre-cleaning operation execution portion is configured to control the changing mechanism, after the clean area has been produced, to change the state of the wiper from the first state to the second state in which the end portion of the wiper is distant from the surface of the conveying member,
• wherein the wiping operation executing portion is configured to move the end portion of the wiper relative to the surface of the conveying member and configured to control the changing mechanism to change the state of the wiper from the second state to the first state such that the end portion of the wiper is in contact with the clean area in the surface of the conveying member.