Patent ID: 9731928
Date: 2017-08-15
CPC Classifications: B65H,G03G,G06K,H04N

Claim:
1. An image processing apparatus comprising: a printing unit configured to print an image on a sheet; a stapleless binding unit configured to perform a stapleless binding process for binding, without using a staple, a plurality of sheets on which images are printed by the printing unit; a combining unit configured to combine, with a print target image, a mark image to be printed on at least one of the plurality of sheets indicating a position proximate thereto, yet separate therefrom, where the stapleless binding process is to be performed, the mark image identifiably showing that the plurality of sheets has been bound; and a control unit configured to, in a case where the stapleless binding unit performs the stapleless binding process, perform control so that an image with which the mark image is combined by the combining unit is printed on a sheet.