Patent ID: 7894763

Claim:
An image forming apparatus comprising: at least one rotatable paper supply portion including: a roll paper accommodating portion that supports a paper roll constituted by winding long paper around a shaft in an operating position in which the paper supply portion is not drawn out; a roll paper holding portion on which the paper roll is temporarily put; a paper feeding portion that delivers paper from the paper roll accommodated on the roll paper accommodating portion; and a horizontal rotating-shaft that rotatably supports the paper supply portion in a body of the image forming apparatus, the paper supply portion drawn outwardly from the body of the image forming apparatus by being rotated when change of the paper roll is performed, wherein the change of the paper roll can be performed by rotating the paper supply portion to thereby draw out the paper supply portion, wherein the roll paper is temporarily put on the roll paper holding portion when the paper supply portion is drawn out from the body, wherein the horizontal rotating-shaft is on a drawing side of the paper supply portion drawn from the image forming apparatus, and the horizontal rotating-shaft is disposed in a lower portion of the paper supply portion; the roll paper accommodating portion includes: a holding section that holds the shaft to be rotatable when operated: a guiding section configured to support ends of the shaft arranged together with the roll paper holding portion in a substantially horizontal line when the paper supply portion is rotated and is drawn out to lead the paper roll to the roll paper accommodating portion; and a suppressing section that suppresses the paper roll from spontaneously performing rotational displacement when the paper supply portion is rotated and is drawn out.