Managing printed documents in a document processing system

A method for managing printed documents comprising:

• providing a postmark client executing on a client computing device;
• providing a postmark server that communicates with the postmark client and communicates with at least one document management system;
• the postmark client detecting a print event that produces a printed document for a specified document on the client computing device, and in response, queries the postmark server to determine whether the printed document for the specified document should include a graphical postmark;
• the postmark server, in response to receiving the query from the postmark client, queries the at least one document management system to determine whether the specified document matches a document in the at least one document management system;
• and
• when the specified document matches a document in the at least one document management system, the postmark server authorizes the postmark client to add the graphical postmark to the printed document, and in response, the postmark client receives a first print stream that does not includes the graphical postmark and adds the graphical postmark to the first print stream to generate a second print stream that includes the graphical postmark, wherein the printed document is printed from the second print stream that includes the graphical postmark.

A networked computer system comprising:

• (A) a cloud-based computer system comprising:
• a cloud-based document management system that manages a plurality of documents stored in a cloud-based repository;
• (B) a client computer system comprising:
• a first processor;
• a first memory;
• a postmark agent residing in the first memory and executed by the first processor, wherein the postmark agent detects a print event that produces a printed document for a specified document by a first software application executing on the client computer system;
• (C) a server computer system comprising:
• a second processor;
• a second memory;
• and
• a postmark server residing in the second memory and executed by the second processor;
• wherein the postmark client, in response to detecting the print event for the specified document on the client computer system, queries the postmark server to determine whether to generate a graphical postmark for the print event for the specified document;
• the postmark server, in response to receiving the query from the postmark client, queries the cloud-based document management system to determine whether the specified document matches a document in the cloud-based repository;
• and
• when the specified document matches a document in the cloud-based document management system, the postmark server authorizes the postmark client to add the graphical postmark to a print stream that produces the printed document, and in response, the postmark client receives a first print stream that does not includes the graphical postmark and adds the graphical postmark to the first print stream to generate a second print stream that includes the graphical postmark, wherein the printed document is printed from the second print stream that includes the graphical postmark.