| 摘要 |
A pickup device for use in an image forming apparatus has a cassette detachably mounted in a body of the image forming apparatus, and a pickup roller for picking up paper piled on the cassette and feeding it to an image forming engine portion by being moved upward and downward in association with loading/unloading of the cassette. Accordingly, overall size of the image forming apparatus is reduced, while improvement in performance and life span is guaranteed due to minimization of mechanical trouble, obtained by preventing possible collision between the pickup roller and the cassette being loaded, or preventing interference between the pickup roller and the paper. Also, information about paper exhaustion and paper remaining in the cassette is provided in real time.
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