Patent ID: 8130401

Claim:
An image forming system comprising: a printer that transfers a plurality of images to a medium while superposing the plurality of images formed by use of a plurality of image forming materials on one another; and a data processor that supplies data of the images to the printer, the data processor including: a data generation unit that generates data of image components corresponding to the respective kinds of the image forming materials; a plurality of data forwarding units that forward the generated data to the printer; and an assigning unit that assigns the image components of the data to be forwarded to the plurality of data forwarding units respectively in accordance with the data, the printer including: output controllers that each controls an image forming mechanism to form an image by use of the image forming materials; and a switch processing unit that transmits the data received from the data forwarding unit of the data processor, to one of the output controllers corresponding to the respective kinds of image components of the data.