Patent ID: 7603051

Claim:
An image forming apparatus comprising: a recording-medium stacking portion; a recording-medium ejecting portion that ejects a recording medium on which an image is formed, to the recording-medium stacking portion; a suctioning/exhausting unit that suctions air in a vicinity of the recording-medium ejecting portion, the suctioning/exhausting unit includes a suction duct that exhausts the suctioned air through a filter to an outside of a main body of the image forming apparatus; an image reading device that reads an original document, the image reading device mounted over the main body of the image forming apparatus, wherein: the recording-medium stacking portion is disposed inside a body formed of the main body of the image forming apparatus and the image reading device, the suction duct includes a suction which lies in a plane formed by a suction-port-side end portion of the suction duct, and the plane is substantially parallel to an upper surface of the recording medium being ejected.