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AssigneeKonica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
InventorsMasahiro Kaneko, Toshio Shida, Kazuhiro Hirota, Kazuo Sato
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An image forming system enabling a cost reduction by decreasing the number of components and having enough performance levels of individual postprocessing functions, comprising: an image forming apparatus body and at least one postprocessing unit, the postprocessing unit selectable from a plurality of types of postprocessing units, wherein a single-sheet processing machine is provided as one of the plurality of types of postprocessing units and wherein the single-sheet processing machine has a plurality of types of single-sheet processing functions for postprocessing in units of a sheet and a sheet attachment function of attaching a cover sheet or an insert sheet to an output sheet bulk.
An image forming system, comprising:
A single-sheet processing machine which is attachable to an image forming apparatus body and is configured to attach another postprocessing unit at a downstream side, having a plurality of mechanisms including a punching unit configured to punch sheets in units of a sheet, a folding unit configured to fold sheets in units of a sheet, a perforator configured to perforate sheets in units of a sheet, and a cutter configured to cut sheets in units of a sheet, and
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