Patent ID: 9354576
Filing Date: 2016-05-31
CPC Classification: G03G

Claim Text:
1. An image forming system including an image forming apparatus that forms an image on a recording material and one or more post-processing apparatuses that perform post-processing on the recording material with the formed image, comprising: a plurality of discharge units provided in the image forming system in order to discharge a recording material; an abnormality detection unit which detects conveyance abnormality of a recording material in a conveyance path in the image forming system; a position detection unit which detects a position of a user who performs a task of removing the recording material having caused the conveyance abnormality detected by the abnormality detection unit; a selection unit which selects a discharge unit, which is able to discharge a recording material remaining on a conveyance path of an upstream side and is nearest to the position of the user detected by the position detection unit, from the plurality of discharge units; and a purge processing unit which allows the recording material remaining on the conveyance path of the upstream side from the discharge unit selected by the selection unit to be discharged from the discharge unit.