BACKGROUND

1. Technical Field

The present disclosure relates to a medium processing apparatus that processes a medium, and a recording system including the medium processing apparatus.

2. Related Art

In a medium processing apparatus that performs processing, such as stapling processing and punching processing, on a medium, for example, transported mediums are sent to a loading tray and ends of the mediums are aligned with each other in the loading tray. Thereafter, the processing such as the stapling processing and the punching processing is performed thereon. Further, such a medium processing apparatus may be provided adjacent to a recording apparatus represented by a printer and may constitute a recording system as a whole. Then, an example of such a configuration is shown in JP-A-2010-6530.

In the above-described recording system, when the recording apparatus is an ink jet printer that performs recording by ejecting ink to a medium, a unique problem occurs. That is, there is a problem in that, in the medium on which the recording is performed by ejecting the ink, since friction of an ejection surface to which the ink is ejected becomes high, for example, when the medium processing apparatus performs the processing, the integrity of the medium in the loading tray deteriorates. Then, in order to cope with this problem, it is preferable to accelerate drying of the medium by a drying mechanism before the medium is sent to the loading tray. However, the size of the drying mechanism is easy to increase, and when such a drying mechanism is provided inside the medium processing apparatus, the size of the medium processing apparatus increases. In particular, an occupied area in a horizontal direction increases.

SUMMARY

A medium processing apparatus of the present disclosure, which solves the above-described problem, includes a receiving portion that receives a medium to be processed, a first processing unit that performs first processing on the medium received from the receiving portion, and a second processing unit that performs second processing on the medium received from the receiving portion or the medium processed by the first processing unit, in which the processing performed by the first processing unit is processing of drying the medium, the first processing unit is located vertically below the second processing unit, and the first processing unit and the second processing unit have a portion overlapping when viewed in a vertical direction.

