Patent ID: 7497568

Claim:
An image forming apparatus, comprising: a body; an engine part provided in said body, said engine part including a recording head that ejects droplets of a recording liquid and a medium feeding part that feeds said medium to a location facing to said recording head, said engine part recording an image on a recording medium by said recording head while feeding said recording medium to said recording head by said medium feeding part; a medium discharging part provided in said body at a side of said engine part, said medium discharging part including a straight feed path which feeds said recording medium straight after recording of said image with said engine part and a curved path provided next to said straight feed path, said curved path turning said recording medium having the image recorded thereon up-side-down; a medium receiving part that receives said recording medium turned up-side-down by said medium discharging part; and a cartridge loading part that holds a cartridge of said recording liquid in a detachable manner, said cartridge loading part being provided in said body of said image forming apparatus and feeding said recording liquid to said recording head of said engine part, wherein said cartridge loading part is provided underneath said straight feed path and is not provided underneath said medium feeding part of said engine part.