A housing assembly of an OPC unit to protect an OPC drum in an image
forming apparatus includes a main housing enclosing at least a half of a
large-diameter OPC drum and provided with a main-opening selectively
contacting a plurality of developing units and a plurality of
sub-openings, a first housing and a second housing each mounted on a side
of the main housing, a handle hingedly connected to the main housing, and
a plurality of brackets mounted on opposite sides of the main housing. As
a result, the housing assembly of the OPC unit allows easy development,
electrification, exposure, image transfer and treatment of a waste toner,
and reliability of the image developing process increases due to the
fixation of the developing units. Also, since the exposure of the OPC
drum is minimized, an area of the OPC drum to be contaminated can be
reduced.