Patent ID: 7586508

Claim:
An image-forming device comprising: a housing; an endless belt that is mounted in the housing and that conveys either one of a developer image and a recording medium; a plurality of process units that are mounted in the housing in one to one correspondence with a plurality of colors, the plurality of process units including a plurality of photosensitive drums, respectively, each photosensitive drum facing the endless belt; a plurality of scanner units that are mounted in the housing and that are provided one for each of the photosensitive drums, each scanner unit scanning with light the surface of the corresponding photosensitive drum to form an electrostatic latent image, each process unit developing the electrostatic latent image by using a developer of the corresponding color; and a transfer portion that is mounted in the housing and that transfers the developer image, formed on the surface of each of the photosensitive drums, onto either one of the endless belt and the recording medium that is conveyed by the endless belt and a cassette holding the recording medium, the cassette being detachably mounted in the housing at a location below the endless belt, the scanner units and the process units being disposed alternately in a horizontal direction, each scanner unit and each process unit being inclined obliquely to a vertical direction, at least a part of each process unit being inserted into and removed from the housing in an obliquely inclined direction towards a front side of the housing, and the endless belt is disposed with its height increasing in a direction in which the cassette is pulled out from the front side of the housing.