Patent ID: 8794741

Claim:
An inkjet recording apparatus comprising: a recording head including a discharge port face with a plurality of discharge ports configured to discharge ink; a carriage having the recording head mounted thereon, wherein the carriage is configured to perform reciprocal scanning; a wiping unit including a sheet-shaped wiping member configured to wipe the discharge port face and a conveying unit configured to convey the sheet-shaped wiping member; and a controller configured to control an amount of conveyance of the sheet-shaped wiping member by the conveying unit, wherein the controller performs control so that the conveyance amount in a first case, where an obtained time elapsed since a last conveyance operation of the sheet-shaped wiping member is greater than or equal to a certain time, becomes greater than the conveyance amount in a second case, where the obtained time elapsed since the last conveyance operation of the sheet-shaped wiping member is less than the certain time.