Patent ID: 8908215
Filing Date: 2014-12-09
Classification: B65H,G03G,H04N

Abstract:
1. An image forming system comprising: a paper sheet feeding section that includes a plurality of paper sheet feeding trays respectively accommodating paper sheets therein; an image forming section that forms an image onto the paper sheet fed from the paper sheet feeding section; a paper sheet ejecting section that ejects the paper sheets onto a plurality of paper sheet ejecting trays; and a control section configured to control the paper sheet feeding section so as to feed the paper sheets to the image forming section from the paper sheet feeding section, to control the image forming section so as to form the image onto the paper sheet, and to control the paper sheet ejecting section to eject the paper sheet onto any one of the plurality of paper sheet ejecting trays of the paper sheet ejecting section; wherein, when implementing a purge processing for collecting a retention paper sheet remaining within the image forming system and ejecting the collected retention paper sheet to the paper sheet ejecting tray, based on paper sheet information regarding the paper sheet feeding tray from which each of the retention paper sheets is fed, the control section is configured to control the paper sheet ejecting section so as to eject the retention paper sheets onto the plurality of paper sheet ejecting trays, in such a manner that a first retention paper sheet fed from a specific paper-sheet feeding tray is ejected separately from a second retention paper sheet fed from a paper sheet feeding tray other than the specific paper-sheet feeding tray.