Patent ID: 8639162

Claim:
A color electrophotographic image forming apparatus for forming an image on a recording material, the apparatus comprising: a cartridge supporting member for supporting a plurality of cartridges, wherein said cartridge supporting member (i) is movable between an inside position inside a main assembly of said color electrophotographic image forming apparatus and an outside position outside the main assembly and (ii) includes a plurality of mounting portions to which the plurality of cartridges are detachably mountable; and a conveying path along which the recording material is to be conveyed, wherein said cartridge supporting member is movable to an exposing position, which is a part of the outside position, in which said conveying path is exposed at an upstream side of the upstreammost-side mounting portion with respect to a pulling-out direction in which said cartridge supporting member is moved from the inside position to the outside position, and wherein, when the recording material is stagnated in the conveying path, by positioning said cartridge supporting member at the exposing position, the stagnated recording material is removable from the upstream side of the upstreammost-side mounting portion with respect to the pulling-out direction without demounting a cartridge of the plurality of cartridges from said cartridge supporting member mounted at the upstreammost-side mounting portion.