Image forming apparatus with a common output scanner output path and printer output path, wherein the output scanned sheet is in a position different from the printed page in the same common output area

An image forming apparatus, comprising:

• an image scanning device configured to scan a document image sheet by sheet from a document including plural sheets;
• the image scanning device comprising of a first outlet through which the document will be ejected via a document path;
• a printing device;
• the printing device comprising of a second outlet through which a print sheet will be ejected via a print sheet path;
• the first outlet is independently arranged from the second outlet and is arranged at a higher position than the second outlet;
• the print sheet path is arranged separately from the document path and does not intersect with the document path;
• an output tray as an output destination of both the document outputted from the image scanning device and the print sheet outputted from the printing device;
• the output tray being arranged on a top surface of a housing of the printing device;
• a controller configured to perform a copy operation and causes the printing device to print an image based on the document image in the copy operation;
• the controller comprising of a processor that is configured to run a software process and a hardware process;
• wherein the image scanning device is arranged on the top surface of the housing of the printing device and wherein the first and second outlets output the print sheet and the document such that edges of the document and the print sheet in a width direction of the output tray are arranged at positions different from each other.