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US 7,689,160 B2Granted
Image forming system
AssigneeKonica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
InventorKazuo Sato
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Abstract
An image forming system including an image forming apparatus for forming an image on a sheet and for ejecting the sheet, a plurality of post-processing apparatuses for receiving the ejected sheet on which an image has been formed and for applying post-processing to the sheet, and a transfer device for transferring the plurality of post-processing apparatuses relative to the image forming apparatus and for connecting one of the plurality of post-processing apparatuses to the image forming apparatus.
Claims8
An image forming system comprising:
- an image forming apparatus for forming an image on a sheet to be ejected;
- a plurality of post-processing apparatuses for receiving the sheet on which an image has been formed and which has been ejected from the image forming apparatus, and for applying post-processing to the sheet;
- a transfer device which has a driving device for transferring at least one of the plurality of post-processing apparatuses and the image forming apparatus relative to each other;
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- a central control unit for controlling the driving device to allow one of the plurality of post-processing apparatuses and the image forming apparatus to face each other according to a type of post-processing to be conducted which has been decided based on a job instruction of the image forming apparatus.
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