Patent ID: 8821051

Claim:
An image forming apparatus, comprising: an image forming unit to form an image on a sheet, disposed in an upper portion of the image forming apparatus; an upper sheet roll and a lower sheet roll provided one above the other below the image forming unit, each of which includes a single long sheet wound around a core, respectively, thereof; an upper sheet roll supporter and a lower sheet roll supporter to support the upper sheet roll and the lower sheet roll, respectively, the upper and lower sheet roll supporters having a conforming shape similarly to the upper and lower sheet rolls, and the lower sheet roll supporter offset proximally toward a front surface of the image forming apparatus from the upper sheet roll supporter; and an upper opening and a lower opening provided in the front surface of the image forming apparatus through which the upper sheet roll and the lower sheet roll, respectively are set to the upper sheet roll supporter and the lower sheet roll supporter from a front surface side of the image forming apparatus, wherein the lower sheet roll supporter has a portion protruding forward beyond a front end surface, the front end surface located above the lower sheet roll supporter and at a front most side of the image forming apparatus, and wherein the upper sheet roll supporter and the lower sheet roll supporter are fixed with respect to the front and back direction of the image forming apparatus.