the pressure roller 62 that applies pressure to the heating roller 61 the fixing unit 60 is not disposed on either the tray 12 or the photosensitive drum unit 81 but in the top section of the printer 10 accordingly the fixing unit 60 is not affected by movement of the tray 12 or photosensitive drum unit 81 next the feeding unit 70 will be described in greater detail the feeding unit 70 is disposed in the bottommost section of the printer 10 and includes a loading tray 71 for accommodating the paper p and a pickup roller 72 for feeding the paper p the feeding unit 70 is configured to feed the paper p at a prescribed timing in relation to an image forming process performed by the exposing device 35 developer cartridges 31 photosensitive drums 32 and intermediate transfer belt 58 a pair of conveying rollers 73 disposed downstream of the pickup roller 72 in the feeding direction receive the paper p fed by the feeding unit 70 and convey the paper p to the point of contact nip point between the intermediate transfer belt 58 and the secondary transfer roller 54 the discharge tray 80 is disposed on the discharge side of the fixing unit 60 for accommodating discharged sheets of paper p pairs of conveying rollers 91 and 93.