Patent ID: 8944707
Filing Date: 2015-02-03
Classification: B41J,B65H

Abstract:
1. An image forming apparatus having an upper casing and a lower casing and a feeding unit disposed in the upper casing to feed a printing medium, the image forming apparatus comprising: a printing medium supplying unit comprising: an image forming unit to form an image on the printing medium; and the feeding unit to feed the printing medium fed from the printing medium supplying unit to the image forming unit, wherein the printing medium supplying unit is detachably coupled to the lower casing of the image forming apparatus and the lower casing has an opening region to accommodate the feeding cassette that is detachably coupled to the lower casing, and wherein the guide unit is configured to rotate in a first direction by contacting a portion of the lower casing defining the opening region when the feeding cassette is detached from the lower casing of the image forming apparatus through the opening region and to rotate in a second direction by contacting the portion of the lower casing defining the opening region when the feeding cassette is inserted in the lower casing of the image forming apparatus through the opening region.