US 7,580,667 B2
Image forming system, image forming apparatus and program
Akio Ueda, Hino (Japan); Junji Sato, Hachioji (Japan); and Shoichi Nakamura, Hachioji (Japan)
Assigned to Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc., Tokyo (Japan)
Filed on Aug. 22, 2006, as Appl. No. 11/508,027.
Claims priority of application No. 2005-253207 (JP), filed on Sep. 01, 2005; and application No. 2006-151362 (JP), filed on May 31, 2006.
Prior Publication US 2007/0047997 A1, Mar. 01, 2007
Int. Cl. G03G 15/00 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 399—407  [399/82] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An image forming system, comprising:
a plurality of recording medium storing devices to store recording media;
an image input device to input image information;
an image forming device to form an image on a recording medium based on the image information inputted through the image input device;
a folding device to fold the recording medium on which the image is formed by the image forming device;
an image size obtaining device to obtain an image size of the image information inputted through the image input device;
a folding setting input device to input a folding setting; and
a control device to select a recording medium storing device among the plurality of the recording medium storing devices based on the folding setting set by folding setting input device and the image size obtained by the image size obtaining device, to control the image forming device to form the image on the recording medium stored in the selected recording medium storing device based on the image information inputted through the image inputting device, and to control the folding device to fold the recording medium on which the image is formed, wherein the control device determines a size of the recording medium based on the image size obtained by the image size obtaining device.