Patent ID: 7391986

Claim:
An image forming system, comprising: a document conveying section that conveys documents such that a front side and a back side of the documents pass through a reading position; an image reading section for reading images on the documents conveyed to the reading position and generating image data; an image forming section for forming images on recording media, according to the image data; an input section for inputting designation whether the images are to be formed on both sides or on one side of the recording media; and a control section for controlling image reading by the image reading section and image forming by the image forming section, wherein the control section controls the image forming section to form images according to image data in a condition where a single job includes both single-sided image recording and double-sided image recording in a mixture, correspondingly to the designation inputted via the input section; and wherein the control section controls the image reading section to read the images on the documents in the condition where the single job includes both single-sided image reading and double-sided image reading, correspondingly to the designation of the image forming inputted via the input section.