Image-forming apparatus
AssigneeCanon Finetech Inc.
InventorMitsuhiro Mukasa
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Abstract
The printer assembly 60 of the image-forming apparatus 20 has a right side plate 200R and a left side plate 200L apart-at a predetermined distance in the sheet width direction (arrow-W direction) perpendicular to the delivery direction of the cut paper sheet P (arrow-A direction and arrow-B direction in FIG. 2). A first delivery pathway and a second delivery pathway are placed between the right side plate 200R and the left side plate 200L (in the space between the side plates). Two openings are formed on the right side plate 200R. The space between the opening 201 and the left side plate 200L serves as the first printer-unit room 81 for placing the printer unit 91. The space between the opening 202 and the left side plate 200L serves as the second printer-unit room 82 for placing the printer unit 92.
Claims20
An image-forming apparatus having a U-turn path constituted of a first delivery pathway for delivering a recording medium sheet in a first direction and a second delivery pathway connected to the downstream side of the first delivery pathway and curved for delivering the recording medium sheet in a second direction reverse to the first direction, and forming an image on the recording medium sheet delivered through the first delivery pathway and the second delivery pathway,
- the image-forming apparatus comprising
- a first printer-unit room for loading removably a first printer unit for image formation on the recording medium sheet delivered through the first delivery pathway, and
- a second printer-unit room for loading removably a second printer unit for image formation on the recording medium sheet delivered through the second delivery pathway.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.