Patent ID: 8396410
Filing Date: 2013-03-12
Classification: B42C,G03G

Abstract:
1. A bookbinding system including an image forming apparatus and a bookbinding apparatus connected to the image forming apparatus, the bookbinding system comprising: an image forming unit configured to form an image on a recording sheet; a stack unit configured to stack, as a bookblock stack, a plurality of recording sheets on which images are formed by the image forming unit; a bonding unit configured to form a booklet by bonding a cover sheet with the bookblock stack; a setting unit configured to set a cover sheet size and a finishing size; a cutting unit configured to cut the booklet bonded together with the cover sheet by the bonding unit into a booklet having the finishing size set by the setting unit; a cut waste storing unit configured to store a cut waste of the booklet cut by the cutting unit; a stack thickness determination unit configured to determine a thickness of the bookblock stack; a cutting amount determination unit configured to determine a cutting amount of the bookblock stack based on the cover sheet size and the finishing size set by the setting unit and the thickness of the bookblock stack determined by the stack thickness determination unit, the cutting amount corresponding to a size of the cut waste; and a bookbinding permission/inhibition determination unit configured to inhibit a bookbinding operation if the cutting amount determined by the cutting amount determination unit is larger than a predetermined value, and to permit the bookbinding operation if the cutting amount is equal to or smaller than the predetermined value, the predetermined value being a value according to a size of a cut waste receiving portion of the cut waste storing unit.