Recording material processing apparatus and image forming system

An image forming system comprising:

• an image forming apparatus that forms an image on a recording material;
• a biding mechanism that moves along a predetermined movement path and binds recording materials having images formed thereon by the image forming apparatus;
• a recording-material transport path along which the recording materials having images formed thereon by the image forming apparatus are transported, the recording-material transport path extending from a first area to a second area, the first and second areas being next to each other with the movement path therebetween, and extending beside the movement path;
• a first transport member that is provided in the first area, at a position away from the portion of the recording-material transport path extending beside the movement path, to transport the recording material on the recording-material transport path to the second area;
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• a second transport member that is provided in the second area, at a position away from the portion of the recording-material transport path extending beside the movement path, to transport the recording material transported by the first transport member to the further downstream side.