Patent ID: 8073360

Claim:
A color electrophotographic image forming apparatus having an apparatus main body to which a plurality of cartridges are detachably mounted adjacently in a first 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, wherein, when each of the plurality of cartridges is mounted to and detached from the apparatus main body, a user grips the gripping portion, 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 second direction, which is a direction orthogonal to the mounting direction and a direction orthogonal to the first direction, and wherein a length of the gripping portion in the first direction is shorter than a length of the gripping portion in the second direction.