Image forming apparatus

An image forming apparatus, comprising:

• a cassette for paper feed configured to include a tray capable of stacking papers as stored in a packaging member, the packaging member has an end portion which is opened prior to the packaging member being placed on the tray;
• a paper feed section configured to include a pickup roller arranged correspond to an opened end portion of the packaging member placed on the tray which pick up the papers stored in the packaging member from the packaging member;
• a driving section configured to lift the tray of the cassette to the pickup roller side according to the reduction of remaining amount of papers stacked on the tray of the cassette;
• a regulating member configured to regulate that the packaging member to be conveyed together with the papers, when the papers are fed from the tray of the cassette by the paper feed section;
• a protrusion configured to arrange at the regulating member, the protrusion formed protrude from an upper portion of the regulating member in an opposite direction of a conveyance direction of the papers by a predetermined width, and to press an upper side of the opened end portion of the packaging member when the tray of the cassette is lifted;
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• an image forming section configured to form an image on the paper conveyed by the paper feed section.