Patent ID: 8797585

Claim:
An image processing system comprising: an image forming apparatus configured to form an image on a sheet using a color material that is decolorable by heating; an erasing apparatus configured to decolorize and erase, by heating, an image on a sheet outputted from the image forming apparatus; a first apparatus configured to compute, from a reduction in the number of sheets that has been achieved by a setting for image formation in the image forming apparatus, an amount of a reduction in environmental burdens that has been achieved by use of the image forming apparatus and to compute, from the number of sheets erased by the erasing apparatus, an amount of a reduction in environmental burdens that has been achieved by use of the erasing apparatus; and a display unit configured to simultaneously display the amount of the reduction in environmental burdens that has been achieved by the image forming apparatus and the amount of the reduction in environmental burdens that has been achieved by the erasing apparatus, these amounts having been computed by the first apparatus.