Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Kouji Aoki

Susumu Murakami

Tomohiko Okada

Kimihide Tsukamoto

Yoshiaki Ibuchi

Hideshi Izumi

Minoru Tomiyori

Takateru Yamamoto

Motoaki Okitsu

Yasushi Matsutomo

Takashi Makiura

Tadaaki Kawano

Haruyoshi Migita

Shinichiro Hiraoka

Akira Kohno

Kunihiko Sakaguchi

Atsushi Saito

An image-forming apparatus is provided which includes a document reading section for reading image information from a document, and an image-forming section for forming an image on a sheet of paper based upon the image information of the document read by the document reading section. A space section is formed below the document reading section, which accommodates the image-forming section and serves as a discharge section to which the sheet of paper bearing the image formed in the image-forming section is discharged. The space section is surrounded by peripheral walls of an apparatus main body including the image-forming section. The image-forming apparatus further includes a paper post-treatment section that subjects the sheet of paper bearing the image to post-treatments, such as an adjustment process and a stapling process, in a virtually horizontal state, and that is placed between the document reading section and the space section.

Image forming apparatus with paper post-treatment device

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Nara, Japan

Kouji Aoki