Patent ID: 7983597

Claim:
A color electrophotographic image forming apparatus having an apparatus main body to which a plurality of cartridges are detachably mounted adjacently in one direction for forming a color image on a recording medium, wherein each of the plurality of cartridges has a gripping portion disposed on a rear end side of each of the plurality of cartridges in a mounting direction in which each of the plurality of cartridges is mounted to the apparatus main body, the gripping portion protruding from the rear end side to an upstream side, wherein, when each of the plurality of cartridges is mounted to and detached from the apparatus main body, a user grips the gripping portion, and wherein, in a state in which the plurality of cartridges are mounted to the apparatus main body, at least one gripping portion is offset from a gripping portion of an adjacent cartridge in a direction orthogonal to the mounting direction and a direction orthogonal to the one direction as viewed along the one direction wherein each of the plurality of cartridges mounted to the apparatus main body comprises a first gripping portion and a second gripping portion, and wherein, in the direction orthogonal to the mounting direction and the direction orthogonal to the one direction as viewed along the one direction, a distance from a center of a corresponding cartridge to the first gripping portion is equal to a distance from the center thereof to the second gripping portion, and a distance from a center of another cartridge adjacent to the corresponding cartridge to a first gripping portion is equal to a distance from the center thereof to a second gripping portion, and the distances of the corresponding cartridge differ from the distances of the another cartridge adjacent to the corresponding cartridge.