System and method for tracking print job status

A system for providing the status of a submitted electronic document on a data peripheral device comprising:

• means adapted for receiving into a data storage associated with the data peripheral device, data representative of a plurality of electronic documents;
• means adapted for receiving into the data storage status data representative of a requested service to be performed by the data peripheral device corresponding to each of the plurality of electronic documents;
• means adapted for processing, via a processor, each electronic document in accordance with corresponding data representative of the requested service received by the data peripheral device;
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• means adapted for capturing at each of a plurality of steps associated with the processing of each electronic document, corresponding status data representative of the status the electronic document during processing stages thereof;
• storing captured status data in a database associated with the data storage such that status data associated with each processing stage is preserved after completion thereof;
• means adapted for receiving, from an associated user, a request for the status of the processing of at least one of the plurality of electronic documents after completion of processing of the electronic document;
• means adapted for retrieving, by the data peripheral device, historic data representative of the stored status of processing of the electronic document from the database;
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• means adapted for communicating the data representative of the stored status of the requested electronic document from the data peripheral device to the associated user over a computer network.