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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 25, 2014
Filed:
Jul. 26, 2011
Tomohiro Kiriyama, Kofu, JP;
Tomohiro Kiriyama, Kofu, JP;
Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
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.