Image forming system
AssigneeKonica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
InventorTomohiro KIRIYAMA
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Abstract
An image forming system includes: a ring bookbinding section which perform a ring bookbinding to a bundle of sheets by using a binder provided with a spine portion and a plurality of finger portions; and a judging section, wherein a last page is firstly fed immediately after job initiation and, subsequently after having fed the last page, image formation based on the image data is initiated, when the judging section judges that an image is not formed on the last page, and wherein all of the image data is firstly acquired completely after job initiation, subsequently the last page is fed and formed image thereon, and then image formation of remaining pages is carried out, when the judging section judges that image is formed on the last page.
Claims5
An image forming system comprising:
- a sheet feeding section which feeds sheets;
- an image data acquisition section which acquires image data of a plurality of pages;
- an image forming section which carries out image formation on sheets based on the image data;
- a ring bookbinding section which performs a ring bookbinding to a bundle of sheets by using a ring binder provided with a spine portion and a plurality of finger portions;
- a judging section which judges whether or not image is formed on a last page of the bundle of sheets based on the acquired imaged data when a ring bookbinding is ordered to be performed;
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- a control section which controls the sheet feeding section and the image forming section,
- so that, in a case when the judging section judges that image is not formed on the last page, a sheet to be a last page is firstly fed immediately after job initiation and, subsequently after having fed the sheet, image formation based on the image data is initiated, and
- so that, in a case when the judging section judges that image is formed on the last page, all of the image data is firstly acquired completely after job initiation, subsequently a sheet to be the last page is fed and formed image thereon, and then image formation of remaining pages is carried out.
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