摘要 |
An image forming apparatus, a printing medium transfer device included in the image forming apparatus, and a method of transferring printing media are provided to reduce the direction change curvature of a printing medium transferred to a printing engine to decrease the height of the image forming apparatus. An image forming apparatus includes a main body, a printing engine, a printing medium supply unit, a pick-up unit, a transfer roller(31), and a plurality of printing medium press units(40). The printing engine prints an image of a printing medium. The printing medium supply unit provides printing media to the printing engine and is combined with the main body. The pick-up unit picks up printing media loaded in the printing medium supply unit. The transfer roller rotates to transfer printing media picked up by the pick-up unit to the printing engine. The printing medium press units have press rollers(41) located around the transfer roller to press transferred printing media in a normal direction of the surface of the transfer roller.
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