Patent ID: 8200103

Claim:
An image forming system comprising: an image forming apparatus; a first feeding apparatus configured to feed a first recording medium to the image forming apparatus; a second feeding apparatus placed at a position having a length of a conveyance path to said image forming apparatus longer than a length of a conveyance path from said first feeding apparatus to said image forming apparatus and configured to feed a second recording medium to the image forming apparatus; a control unit configured to control pre-feeding so that feeding of the second recording medium is started before feeding of the first recording medium, onto which an order of image formation to be performed is earlier than an order of image formation onto the second recording medium, and the second recording medium is conveyed to a predetermined position on the conveying path to said image forming apparatus, wherein, when the control unit determines that a request for suspending image formation has been issued after the second recording medium has been pre-fed from the second feeding apparatus, if the first recording medium, having the earlier order of image formation than the order of image formation onto the second recording medium that has been pre-fed from the second feeding apparatus, has not been fed yet from the first feeding apparatus, the control unit: controls the first feeding apparatus to feed the first recording medium, having the order of image formation earlier than the order of image formation onto the second recording medium that has been pre-fed from the second feeding apparatus, that has not been fed yet from the first feeding apparatus, and controls the image forming apparatus to execute image formation onto the first recording medium that has been fed from the first feeding apparatus and the second recording medium that has been pre-fed from the second feeding apparatus.