Patent ID: 9671728
Date: 2017-06-06
CPC Classifications: G03G,G06K

Claim:
1. An image processing apparatus, comprising: an image decoloring unit configured to decolor an image formed on a sheet with a decolorable color material by heating the sheet; an image forming unit configured to form an image on the sheet with the decolorable color material and a non-decolorable color material; a control unit configured to control the image forming unit to prevent the formation of an image with a decolorable color material during the period from the moment the image decoloring unit completes a decoloring processing to the moment a specified time elapses, and to allow the formation of an image with the decolorable color material after the specified time elapses, and to control the image forming unit to form an image with the non-decolorable color material no matter whether the specified time elapses or not in the case where images are formed with the non-decolorable color material, and a first accommodation unit disposed at a downstream side of the image decoloring unit in a sheet conveying direction and configured to accommodate the sheet processed by the image decoloring unit; and a second accommodation unit configured to accommodate the sheet at least unused on one side.