摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To suppress or prevent the deterioration of the productivity of a book-bound article. <P>SOLUTION: A bookbinding system 1 searches for the other image forming apparatus 5 that can print, by proxy, a cover from among other image forming apparatuses 5 on a network N in the case that an image forming apparatus 3 coupled with bookbinding equipment 4 detects the occurrence of such a trouble that it cannot supply recording paper to serve as a cover in the specified position P of the bookbinding equipment 4, and sends data of an image to form the cover to the searched another image forming apparatus 5, and resumes bookbinding processing in the bookbinding equipment 4 in the case that the recording paper becomes the cover the image of which is formed with the other image forming apparatus 5 on the basis of the transmitted image data is set in the manual feed tray 41 of the bookbinding equipment 4. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2012,JPO&INPIT |