Patent ID: 8752817

Claim:
A recording medium processing apparatus comprising: a first transportation route on which a recording medium is transported; a second transportation route which branches from the first transportation route at a branch position; a transporting unit provided on a downstream side of the branch position in a transport direction of the recording medium, the transporting unit (i) feeding at least a part of a first recording medium, which is transported on the first transportation route and passed through the branch position, into the second transportation route, (ii) transporting the fed first recording medium and a second recording medium with an overlap in the transport direction on the first transportation route to generate a bundle of the fed first recording medium and the second recording medium and (iii) feeding the transported bundle which passed through the branch position into the second transportation route; and a punching unit that is provided at an end of the second transportation route and punches the fed bundle with one punching process, wherein a punching process of the punching unit is performed in parallel with a process of an edge binder.