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AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsBinnur Al-Kazily, Craig R. White
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A central print system in which print jobs are directed to a particular print resource based on a set of print job attributes specified by an end user at the time the print job is submitted. The central print system provides intent-based printing which allows the end user to specify the end result of the printing operation rather than initially selecting a print resource. A print job manager processes the print job using the end user selected print job processing attributes to select the appropriate print resource from a group of networked print resources. An attribute registers a set of job processing attributes for each print resource servicing a single print queue and provides a list of available print job attributes to each client computer on the network from which an end user specifies particular job attributes to define a desired end result for a print job. The attribute manager periodically updates the job processing attribute list as print resources are added to or deleted from the network. The central print system may include one or more add-on modules accessible by the print job manager which provide additional functionality to the print system not available in or required to be provided by a print resource.
A method of selecting a job processing resource for processing a print job in a network having a host computer, a print server, a set of network job processing resources coupled to the print server, and a central print system for processing a print job as a function of user selected job processing attributes, the method comprising the steps of:
A central print system for processing a print job as a function of user selected job processing attributes in a network having a host computer, a print server and a set of network job processing resources coupled to the print server, the central print system comprising:
An article of manufacture comprising a program storage medium having computer readable program code means embodied therein for causing the selection of a print resource in a computer network having a host computer, a print server, a set of network print resources coupled to the print server, and a central print system for processing a print job as a function of user selected job processing attributes, in accordance with one or more user specified job processing attributes, the computer readable program code means in the article of manufacture including:
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