Patent ID: 7198155

Claim:
An image forming apparatus, comprising: an image forming apparatus main body including a reading section having a scanner unit for reading a document image, an image forming section having an image forming unit for forming an image according to image data read by said reading section and a sheet feed unit for feeding a sheet to said image forming unit, and a sheet storage space, formed to be open to outside between said reading section and said image forming section, for storing a sheet transported from said image forming unit; and a toner cartridge containing toner to be supplied to said image forming unit and adapted to be inserted into and removed from said image forming apparatus main body, wherein said image forming apparatus main body is packed by a first packing member, and said toner cartridge is packed by a second packing member being formed to be inserted and fixed in said sheet storage space of said image forming apparatus main body packed by said first packing member, and is inserted and fixed in said sheet storage space.