Image forming system and sheet handling apparatus
AssigneeFuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
InventorRyuichi Sato
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Abstract
An image forming system includes an image forming unit that forms images on sheets; a sheet compiling unit that compiles the sheets on which the image forming unit has formed the images into a sheet stack; a first binding unit that binds a first end portion of the sheet stack by performing a first binding process; a second binding unit that binds a second end portion of the sheet stack by performing a second binding process, the second end portion being different from the first end portion; and an image rotation unit that rotates an orientation of each of the images in accordance with whether the sheet stack is to be bound by using the first binding unit or the second binding unit, the images being formed on the sheets of the sheet stack by the image forming unit.
Claims10
An image forming system comprising:
- an image forming unit that forms images on sheets;
- a sheet compiling unit that compiles the sheets on which the image forming unit has formed the images into a sheet stack;
- a first binding unit that binds a first end portion of the sheet stack by performing a first binding process, the sheet stack having been compiled by the sheet compiling unit;
- a second binding unit that binds a second end portion of the sheet stack by performing a second binding process, the sheet stack having been compiled by the sheet compiling unit, the second end portion being different from the first end portion;
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- an image rotation unit that rotates an orientation of each of the images in accordance with whether the sheet stack is to be bound by using the first binding unit or the second binding unit, the images being formed on the sheets of the sheet stack by the image forming unit.
A sheet handling apparatus comprising:
- a sheet compiling unit that compiles sheets into a sheet stack, the sheets being supplied from an image forming apparatus that forms images on the sheets, the images being oriented in a first image orientation or in a second image orientation that is rotated by a predetermined angle with respect to the first image orientation;
- a first binding unit that binds a first end portion of the sheet stack by performing a first binding process, the sheet stack having been compiled by the sheet compiling unit and including sheets on which images have been formed in the first image orientation;
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- a second binding unit that binds a second end portion of the sheet stack by performing a second binding process, the sheet stack having been compiled by the sheet compiling unit and including sheets on which images have been formed in the second image orientation, the second end portion being different from the first end portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.