Image forming apparatus

An image forming apparatus comprising:

• an image former to form an image on a sheet;
• a sheet stacker disposed above the image former in a vertical direction, the sheet stacker to stack the sheet having the image on the sheet;
• a lateral projection:
• projecting upward from the image former in the vertical direction;
• disposed at a side portion of the image former in a lateral direction perpendicular to the vertical direction;
• disposed adjacent to the sheet stacker in the lateral direction;
• and
• including a sheet ejection port to eject the sheet to the sheet stacker in the lateral direction;
• a blower including multiple exhaust ports arranged side by side at intervals in a width direction perpendicular to the vertical direction and the lateral direction, the multiple exhaust ports disposed above the sheet ejection port to exhaust air downward to the sheet stacker;
• and
• a pressing member to:
• contact and press, an upper surface of the sheet ejected from the sheet ejection port to the sheet stacker, from above in the vertical direction, and
• disposed within an operating region between two adjacent exhaust ports among the multiple exhaust ports in the width direction.