Patent ID: 7561839

Claim:
An image forming apparatus comprising: a first toner-image forming unit configured to form a first monochrome toner image; a first intermediate transfer drum onto which the first monochrome toner image is transferred; a first transfer unit configured to transfer the first monochrome toner image from the first intermediate transfer drum onto first recording paper; a second toner-image forming unit configured to form a second monochrome toner image substantially simultaneously and in parallel with the formation of the first toner image; a second intermediate transfer drum onto which the second monochrome toner image is transferred; a second transfer unit configured to transfer the second monochrome toner image from the second intermediate transfer drum onto second recording paper; a paper feeding unit configured to feed the first recording paper and the second recording paper to the first transfer unit and the second transfer unit, respectively, substantially simultaneously and in parallel with each other; a first fixing unit configured to fix the transferred first monochrome toner image on the first recording paper; a second fixing unit configured to fix the transferred second monochrome toner image on the second recording paper; and a paper discharge tray to which the first recording paper having the first monochrome toner image fixed thereon by the first fixing unit and the second recording paper having the second monochrome toner image fixed thereon by the second fixing unit are discharged, wherein the first recording paper and the second recording paper are discharged to the paper discharge tray substantially simultaneously and in parallel with each other from opposite directions each other.