Patent ID: 8287086

Claim:
An image recording apparatus which records an image on a recording medium, the image recording apparatus comprising: a recording section which records the image by discharging an ink from nozzles to the recording medium; an operating section via which a user can select a desired operation from a plurality of operations including a recording operation performed by the recording section; a display which displays a situation of the operation; a restoring mechanism which performs a restoring operation for restoring a discharge state of the nozzles; a timer which measures an elapsed time elapsed after execution of the restoring operation last time; a communication section which transmits and receives facsimile data, wherein when the facsimile data is received by the communication section, a display content of the display is changed to display a receipt of the facsimile data or the received facsimile data; a detecting section which monitors the display and actually detects change of a display content in the display; and a controller which controls the restoring mechanism to execute the restoring operation whenever the detecting section detects the change of the display content in the display caused by receiving of the facsimile data by the communication section and the elapsed time measured by the timer exceeds a predetermined time period.