Patent ID: 8646771

Claim:
An image forming apparatus comprising: a body; a printing medium cassette detachably received in the body; and a pickup unit configured pick up a printing medium from the printing medium cassette, the pickup unit including a pickup roller configured to pick up the printing medium, a delivery roller configured to deliver the picked up printing medium away from the printing medium cassette and a pickup frame to which the pickup roller and the delivery roller are rotatably coupled; an operating lever arranged to be rotatable about one end thereof, wherein the printing medium cassette is movable along a movement path into and out of the body, the pickup unit is movable out of the movement path of the printing medium cassette in cooperation with a detaching movement of the printing medium cassette along the movement path out of the body, the movement path of the printing medium cassette is perpendicular to the axial direction of the pickup roller, and the operating lever interacts with the printing medium cassette, the operating lever making contact with the pickup unit by rotating in a first direction when the printing medium cassette is detached from the body, and is separated from the pickup unit by rotating in a second direction opposite to the first direction when the printing medium cassette is mounted on the body.