Patent ID: 7817931
Filing Date: 2010-10-19
Classification: G03G

Abstract:
1. An image-forming system, comprising: an image-forming apparatus that transfers to paper an image formed based on image data and discharges the paper; a finisher that performs a finishing process on the paper discharged from the image-forming apparatus and stacked at a predetermined position; image-processing means that processes the image data in job units including a plurality of pages when forming images using the image-forming apparatus; discharge destination search means that specifies in each lob whether the finisher is the discharge destination of the paper with the images transferred by the image-forming apparatus; type specifying means that specifies a type of paper to be transferred with the images by the image-forming apparatus for at least each single page in a job, for jobs where the finisher has been designated as the discharge destination by the discharge destination search means; feeding means that is prepared in advance with a plurality of types of paper to be transferred with the images by the image-forming apparatus and supplies a sheet of paper of a type that corresponds to each single page of the lob, based on a specification provided by the type specification means; first type prohibition determining means that determines based on the paper type whether the finisher is appropriate as the discharge destination for the sheet of paper after the transfer of the images by the image-forming apparatus for each single page in the job; first limited number of sheets determining means that counts a total number of pages determined as inappropriate by the first type prohibition determining means and determines whether the total number of pages is below a predetermined limited number of sheets of paper; discharge destination setting means that sets the finisher as the discharge destination of the sheet of paper when the first limited number of sheets determining means determines that the total number of pages is below the predetermined limited number of sheets of paper, even if the first type prohibition determining means determines the finisher as an inappropriate discharge destination; and discharge destination changing means that changes the discharge destination specified by the discharge destination specification means not to the finisher but to another destination when the first limited number of sheets determining means determines that the total number of pages is not below the predetermined limited number of sheets of paper.