Image forming apparatus for executing post processing and processing method

A method for executing a job by an image forming apparatus that can carry out formation of an image on an image receiving medium using a color material for non-removal and formation of an image on an image receiving medium using a color material for removal, and also can carry out a first processing for making a hole and a second processing that does not make a hole in the image receiving medium on which the image is formed, the first processing comprising binding an image receiving medium bundle through driving a staple into the image receiving medium bundle by using a puncher, comprising:

• executing the second processing without carrying out the first processing to the image receiving medium on which the image is formed with the color material for removal at the time of executing the job in a case in which the job contains formation of the image with the color material for removal and carries out the first processing;
• conveying an image receiving medium to any one of stacking sections by using a conveyance path which is bifurcated by a bifurcation arranged on a downstream side of the puncher in a conveyance direction and reaches each of the stacking sections;
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• switching a conveying route at the bifurcation.

A processing apparatus for carrying out a processing to an image receiving medium on which an image forming apparatus that can carry out formation of an image on an image receiving medium using a color material for non-removal and formation of an image on an image receiving medium using a color material for removal forms an image, comprising:

• a first processing section configured to carry out a first processing for making a hole in the image receiving medium to the image receiving medium on which the image forming apparatus forms an image, and to comprise a puncher which makes a hole in an image receiving medium;
• a second processing section configured to carry out a second processing which does not make a hole in the image receiving medium to the image receiving medium on which the image forming apparatus forms an image;
• a plurality of stacking sections which stack the image receiving medium;
• a conveyance path configured to be bifurcated by a bifurcation arranged on a downstream side of the puncher in a conveyance direction, and to reach each of the stacking sections, and to convey an image receiving medium to any one of the plurality of stacking sections and switch a conveying route at the bifurcation;
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• a controller configured to carry out the second processing without carrying out the first processing to the image receiving medium on which the image forming apparatus forms an image at the time of executing a job by the image forming apparatus and the processing apparatus in a case in which the job executed by the image forming apparatus contains formation of the image with the color material for removal and carries out the first processing.