Patent ID: 8655256

Claim:
A recording material processing apparatus comprising: a recording material supplying device that supplies a recording material; an image recording device that records an image on the recording material at a predetermined recording position of the image recording device; a recording material transporting mechanism that includes: a recording material transporting path that is between the recording material supplying device and the predetermined recording position of the image recording device, and that transports the recording material to the recording position of the image recording device; a transporting member that is arranged along the recording material transporting path; a burr curing device that includes: a pair of pressurizing members that pressurize the recording material to cure the burrs at the edge of the recording material, wherein the pair of the pressurizing members is provided on the recording material transporting path between the recording material supplying device and a transportation changing position; a burr curing control device configured to determine necessity/unnecessity of burr curing at an edge of the recording material and bring the pair of the pressurizing members into contact with or retracted from each other based on a result of determination, wherein the burr curing control device includes a recording material kind determining unit configured to determine a thickness of the recording material, the burr curing control device as a result of the recording material kind determining unit determining that the recording material has a thickness equal to or larger than a predetermined thickness, brings the pair of the pressurizing members into contact with each other to cure the burrs at an edge of the recording material, and the burr curing control device as a result of the recording material kind determining unit determining that the recording material has a thickness smaller than the predetermined thickness, retracts the pair of the pressurizing members from each other so as not to cure the burrs at the edge of the recording material.