| CPC B65H 5/06 (2013.01) [B41J 11/0095 (2013.01); B41J 25/3082 (2013.01); B41J 29/02 (2013.01); B41J 29/13 (2013.01)] | 10 Claims |
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1. An image forming apparatus comprising:
an image forming unit configured to form an image on a recording material;
a casing accommodating the image forming unit, the casing including a space portion provided at an upper side of the casing and exposing to outside of the casing;
a document reading unit disposed above the space portion in a vertical direction, the document reading unit including a document stand configured to support a document and an image reading unit configured to read an image of the document supported on the document stand;
a sheet discharge unit configured to discharge a recording material on which an image is formed by the image forming unit from inside of the casing to the space portion;
a sheet supporting portion disposed at a bottom portion of the space portion and configured to support a recording material discharged by the sheet discharge unit;
an operation unit disposed above the casing in the vertical direction and downstream of the document reading unit in a sheet discharge direction of a recording material discharged by the sheet discharge unit, the operation unit including a display surface; and
a supporting unit rotatably supporting the operation unit with respect to the casing,
wherein, where an occupied region is where a plurality of the recording material occupies in a case where a maximum number of a maximum size of a recording material supportable on the sheet supporting portion is supported, the operation unit is disposed such that part of the operation unit in a width direction intersecting with the vertical direction and the sheet discharge direction overlaps the occupied region as viewed in the vertical direction,
wherein the casing includes a front cover configured to open toward a downstream side in the sheet discharge direction,
wherein the supporting unit is configured to rotatably support the operation unit about a rotational axis, between a first position and a second position, the second position being a position where a tilt angle of the display surface with respect to a horizontal direction is larger than a tilt angle in the first position,
wherein the rotational axis is positioned downstream of, in the sheet discharge direction:
a center of the operation unit in the sheet discharge direction;
the document reading unit in the sheet discharge direction; and
the closed front cover, and
wherein the supporting unit supports the operation unit such that, in a case where the operation unit is positioned in the second position, a lower end of the operation unit is positioned above the occupied region in the vertical direction.
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