Outsourcing print jobs with print job recipes
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsPaul Wissenbach, Scott C. Clouthier, Shaun Patrick Henry
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Abstract
In one example in accordance with the present disclosure, a system is described. The system includes an outsourcing engine to select a contracting print device to which a print job is to be outsourced. A recipe generating engine of the system generates a recipe for a print job. The recipe includes 1) settings for the print job and 2) settings for the contracting print device that is to generate the print job. The system also includes an encoder to encrypt the recipe and an exception processor to respond to requests from the contracting print device to deviate from the recipe.
Claims15
A system, comprising:
- an outsourcing engine to select a contracting print device to which a print job is to be outsourced;
- a recipe generating engine to generate a recipe for a print job, which recipe comprises:
- settings for the print job;
- and
- settings for the contracting print device that is to generate the print job;
- an encoder to encrypt the recipe;
- and
- an exception processor to respond to a request from the contracting print device to deviate from the recipe.
A method, comprising:
- generating a recipe for a print job, wherein the recipe comprises:
- settings for the print job;
- and
- settings for a contracting print device that is to generate the print job;
- encrypting the recipe for the print job;
- and
- transmitting an encrypted recipe to a secure repository accessible by an agent associated with the contracting print device.
A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium encoded with instructions executable by a processor, the machine-readable storage medium comprising:
- instructions to generate an encrypted recipe for a print job, wherein the encrypted recipe comprises:
- settings for the print job;
- and
- settings for a contracting print device that is to generate the print job;
- instructions to transmit the encrypted recipe to a secure repository;
- instructions to generate an outsourcing agreement for the print job;
- instructions to, responsive to generating the outsourcing agreement, authorize the contracting print device to access and download the encrypted recipe from the secure repository;
- and
- instructions to authorize a request from the contracting print device to deviate from the recipe.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.