Patent ID: 7301677

Claim:
An image forming system comprising: a plurality of image forming apparatuses; a distributing apparatus that distributes image data to said plurality of image forming apparatuses; a mark forming device provided in each of said plurality of image forming apparatuses, for forming at least one predetermined mark on a transfer material; a fixing device provided in each of said plurality of image forming apparatuses, for thermally fixing a toner image formed on the transfer material; a detecting device provided in each of said plurality of image forming apparatuses, for detecting the predetermined mark formed on the transfer material; and a transfer device provided in said distributing apparatus, for adjusting sizes of images to be formed by respective ones of said plurality of image forming apparatuses according to the predetermined mark detected by the respective ones of said plurality of image forming apparatuses, and for transferring the images to the respective ones of said plurality of image forming apparatuses.