Patent ID: 7543805

Claim:
A bookbinding system comprising: an image forming apparatus including an image recording device; and a bookbinding apparatus including a cover-sheet supply section which supplies a cover sheet, wherein the image forming apparatus and the bookbinding apparatus are connected for conducting bookbinding the image forming apparatus further comprising: a first ejection-outlet through which a sheet on which an image is recorded by the image recording device is ejected to the bookbinding apparatus; a second ejection-outlet through which the cover sheet is ejected and can be received into the image forming apparatus; a first conveyance path which feeds the sheet to the first ejection-outlet; and a second conveyance path which feeds the cover sheet to the second ejection-outlet, the bookbinding apparatus further comprising: a first accepting inlet connected to the first ejection-outlet; and a second accepting inlet connected to the second ejection-outlet, wherein the image forming apparatus receives the cover sheet supplied from the cover-sheet supply section through the second ejection-outlet and can feed the cover sheet to the bookbinding apparatus through the second conveyance path and the second ejection-outlet after recording the image on the cover sheet with the image recording device and the bookbinding apparatus conducts bookbinding for the sheet received from the image forming apparatus and the cover sheet.