Patent ID: 7738809
Filing Date: 2010-06-15
Classification: G03G

Abstract:
1. An image forming system comprising: an image forming apparatus processing image data page by page and printing, on a paper, an image formed based on the processed image data to discharge the printed paper; a finisher receiving the printed paper discharged from said image forming apparatus and executing one of an operation of applying predetermined postprocessing to the printed paper to discharge the postprocessed printed paper and an operation of discharging the printed paper discharged from said image forming apparatus without applying the postprocessing to the printed paper; and a controller which: processes the image data in a unit of a job when said image forming apparatus forms the image; sets in a job on the basis of an instruction given by a user that said finisher should perform the postprocessing; and when a predetermined error regarding the postprocessing occurs while said image forming apparatus is executing an operation for forming the image in the set state, performs control to make each of said image forming apparatus and said finisher execute a preset unique operation, wherein one of a first unique operation and a second unique operation is selected as the unique operation by said user when said user gives the instruction, the first unique operation being to cancel the setting that said finisher should perform the postprocessing and make said image forming apparatus continue the operation for forming the image, and the second unique operation being to make said image forming apparatus stop the operation for forming the image, generate an error state and wait for an instruction from said user.