Patent ID: 8556377

Claim:
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 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, 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 by a cleaner, which is different from the wiper, wherein the cleaner includes a sub-wiper having an end portion contactable with the surface of the conveying member, and wherein the pre-cleaning operation executing portion is configured to move the end portion of the sub-wiper relative to the surface of the conveying member in a direction intersecting with the conveying direction in a state in which the end portion of the sub-wiper is in contact with the surface of the conveying member.