Image forming apparatus having lowered image forming...

Details Image forming apparatus having lowered image forming... Image forming apparatus having lowered image forming...

2008-12-09

2011-10-18

Ngo, Hoang (Department: 2852)

Electrophotography

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C399S107000, C399S118000

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08041288

ABSTRACT:
In a printer, a scanner unit is formed into a taper shape having a thinner thickness on a side of a pick-up roller in a removing direction of a process unit, to allow the process unit to be removed from the printer. A part of a sheet feeding path is formed in an area between the process unit and a sheet cassette. An image forming position on the sheet feed path is set lower than an upper end of the pick-up roller. Thus, removal of the process unit can be readily performed. Further, the height of the printer at a position of the pick-up roller can be reduced as compared with a case where the scanner unit is not formed into a taper shape.

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