Patent ID: 6484003
Filing Date: 2002-11-19
Classification: G03G

Abstract:
A color image-forming apparatus, comprising:a plurality of image carriers; a plurality of latent image forming devices to form electrostatic latent images on said image carriers; a plurality of developing devices to develop said electrostatic latent images with toner to form visible toner images on said image carriers; an intermediate transfer member, a longitudinal direction of which is arranged at substantially a vertical direction, and onto which said toner images formed on said image carriers are sequentially transferred in such a manner that said toner images overlap relative to each other so as to form a color toner image on said intermediate transfer member; and a transferring device to transfer said color toner image formed on said intermediate transfer member onto a transfer sheet; wherein at least said intermediate transfer member and said image carriers are integrated into a rack, and said rack is drawable in substantially a horizontal direction in respect to a mainframe of said color image-forming apparatus.