Patent ID: 8081919

Claim:
An image processing apparatus comprising: a recording material mounting unit that mounts for mounting recording materials thereon; an original mounting unit, disposed above the recording material mounting unit, for mounting originals thereon; a supply roller that supplies the originals or recording materials from the original mounting unit or the recording material mounting unit; a separating unit that separates one of the originals or one of the recording materials in cooperation with the supply roller; a reading unit that reads an image of an original; a recording unit that records the image on a recording material; an original detection sensor, disposed above the original mounting unit, that which detects the original on the original mounting unit; an original widthwise direction reference surface that abuts the original mounted on the original mounting unit to position the original; and a recording material widthwise direction reference surface that abuts the recording material mounted on the recording material mounting unit to position the recording material, wherein no recording material exists below a portion contacted by the original detection sensor of the original on the original mounting unit abutting the original widthwise direction reference surface when the widest recording material available to the image processing apparatus is mounted on the recording material mounting unit abutting against recording material widthwise direction reference surface.