In an inkjet printer including at least a printhead of inkjet type configured to eject ink according to print data and a cleaning unit configured to perform a cleaning of the printhead by ejecting ink to produce suitable conditions for an inkjet recording, the inkjet printer further includes a user information input unit configured to input user information, a cleaning direction unit configured to issue for a user a cleaning direction, and a control unit configured to instruct the cleaning unit to clean the printhead in response to the cleaning direction issued by the cleaning direction unit on condition that the user information inputted by the user information input unit is permissible to perform the cleaning. Also disclosed is an image processing apparatus, incorporating the inkjet printer and further including a document scanner configured to read an image of a document and to generate first image data corresponding to the image, and an image data processing unit configured to convert the first image data into second image data suitable for image recording by the inkjet printer and to output to the inkjet printer.