Patent ID: 8007071

Claim:
An image forming apparatus which forms an image on an image forming medium, comprising: a liquid tank which stores liquid for forming an image; a liquid jetting head which is connected to the liquid tank and has a nozzle for jetting the liquid supplied from the liquid tank onto the image forming medium; a carriage on which the liquid tank and the liquid jetting head are provided; a recovery mechanism which recovers a liquid jetting function, for jetting the liquid, of the liquid jetting head; a memory which retains predetermined history information; and a controller which controls the recovery mechanism based on the history information retained by the memory, wherein the recovery mechanism selectively executes two recovery operations of a first recovery operation for discharging air from the liquid tank and a second recovery operation for discharging air from the liquid tank and for discharging the liquid from the nozzle, as an operation for recovering the liquid jetting function of the liquid jetting head, and the controller controls the recovery mechanism to perform the first recovery operation in a case that the history information retained in the memory includes an abnormality when a power supply of the image forming apparatus is switched ON.