A multifunctional machine includes an image forming unit and an image reading unit. Of them, the image reading unit is held on a body case with a longitudinal direction of an original placing part on which an original is rested and placed being along a width direction of an apparatus and in a state in which the image reading unit is inclined downward to the back side from the front side of the apparatus. A front surface wall of the body case is an openable and closable front cover, and is structured so that a process unit housed inside can be removed from a front side of the apparatus by opening it. Recording paper on which an image is formed in the image forming unit is discharged onto the image reading unit.