Sheet cutting device and image forming apparatus including the sheet cutting device

An image forming apparatus comprising:

• an image forming device that forms an image on a sheet of recording media;
• a sheet feed device that has a feed guide plate unit forming a sheet feed path thereon and feeds the sheet having the image formed thereon along the sheet feed path;
• and
• a sheet cutting device that cuts the sheet fed along the sheet feed path,
• the sheet cutting device comprising:
• a cutter holder accommodating a cutter, the cutter having opposed blades opposing each other to cut a sheet of recording media fed along the sheet feed path;
• a moving unit holding the cutter holder and movable in a sheet width direction perpendicular to a sheet feed direction in which the sheet is fed along the sheet feed path;
• and
• a guide member disposed along the sheet width direction to guide the moving unit in the sheet width direction,
• wherein the cutter holder partially overlaps with the feed guide plate unit in a thickness direction of the sheet perpendicular to both the sheet width direction and the sheet feed direction.