Patent ID: 8503043

Claim:
An image processing apparatus comprising: a flat box-shaped housing configured to be placed in a substantially upright position, wherein a pathway is formed in the housing, the pathway comprising a first pathway and a second pathway; a feeding mechanism disposed in the housing to feed a recording medium along the pathway; a recording device disposed in an interposed-space, which is a space interposed between the first pathway and the second pathway, to scan while ejecting ink droplets onto the recording medium fed along the pathway; an ink tube disposed in the interposed-space to supply ink to the recording device; and a cartridge holder portion disposed in the interposed-space and in a lateral side of the housing and arranged to receive an ink cartridge removably inserted in a lateral direction into the cartridge holder portion and having an ink tube receiving portion configured to receive the ink tube extending in the lateral direction, the lateral direction being parallel to a width direction of the recording medium fed along the pathway, wherein the feeding mechanism is configured to feed the recording medium downwardly to the recording device through the first pathway and to feed the recording medium recorded by the recording device upwardly through the second pathway, wherein each of the cartridge holder portion, the ink tube, and the recording device are disposed in the interposed-space between the first pathway and the second pathway, and wherein the cartridge holder portion is disposed in a space above an area in which the recording device moves while scanning such that the cartridge holder portion and the area in which the recording device moves while scanning are aligned in a vertical direction, but not aligned in both the lateral direction and a third direction, which is perpendicular to the lateral direction and the vertical direction.