Patent ID: 7913990
Filing Date: 2011-03-29
Classification: G03G

Abstract:
1. An image forming system, comprising: an image forming apparatus to produce at least one bunch of recording mediums from a single set of document mediums; and a finisher to selectively apply a finish processing to one or more of the recording mediums in each said bunch of recording mediums, the finisher being operable in a first finishing mode, a second finishing mode, and a mixture mode, such that (i) in the first finishing mode, each said bunch of recording mediums comprises all finished recording mediums to which the finish processing has been applied, (ii) in the second finishing mode, each said bunch of recording mediums comprises all non-finished recording mediums to which the finish processing has not been applied, and (iii) in the mixture mode, each said bunch of recording mediums comprises a mixture of finished recording mediums and non-finished recording mediums; wherein the finisher comprises: wherein, when the image forming system produces the at least one bunch of recording mediums in the mixture mode in which each said bunch of recording mediums includes the finished recording mediums and the non-finished recording mediums intermingled within the bunch of recording mediums, the matching shift section is controlled so that the finished recording mediums and the non-finished recording mediums, both to be intermingled within the bunch of recording mediums, are stacked at a same recording-medium stacking position on the stacking tray.