Image Number 19 for United States Patent #6249305.
An image forming apparatus is provided which includes an image carrying member, a plurality of charging devices for charging the image carrying member, a plurality of laser exposing units for scanning the charged image carrying member with laser beams so as to form latent images at a predetermined position on the image carrying member, a plurality of developing devices for developing the latent images so as to form toner images, and a transfer section for transferring the toner images onto a sheet. The plurality of laser exposing units are vertically arranged and fixed to each other as a single body so that each laser beam of the laser exposing units is parallel to another laser beam with a predetermined interval.
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