Image forming apparatus with variable-position guideway of a pair of position guide rollers

摘要

A pair of conveyor rollers arranged in an image forming apparatus to convey a recording sheet which has been subjected to a fixing process toward outside of a body of the apparatus is configured to be shiftable relative to the body between a first position and a second position. A first holding member is configured to support one of the conveyor rollers in such a manner that a conveyor roller supported by the first holding member is swingable around a pivot located adjacent to a sheet conveyance path upstream of the supported conveyor roller to allow the pair of conveyor rollers to be shifted between the first position and the second position. The first holding member comprises a sheet guide portion which provides a variable-position guideway extending from a position located upstream along the sheet conveyance path toward a peripheral surface of the supported conveyor roller. The sheet guide portion is configured to come to a position suitable to guide the recording sheet toward a nip position at which the pair of conveyor rollers nips the recording sheet at least when the pair of conveyor rollers is shifted to the first position.