Method and system for determining a configuration of a document production environment

A system for determining a configuration of print-related devices in a document environment, the system comprising:

• a computing device;
• and
• a computer-readable storage medium in communication with the computing device, wherein the computer-readable storage medium comprises one or more programming instructions for:
• identifying a plurality of environment requirements comprising one or more required print capabilities and a ratio of users to print-related devices associated with a document environment,
• for each print-related device currently in the document environment, identifying a corresponding spatial entity having associated print volume information and associated print capability information,
• grouping a plurality of the spatial entities having similar print capability information into one or more capability groups, wherein each capability group is associated with the print volume information and print capability information associated with the spatial entities comprising the capability group, and
• determining one or more recommended print-related devices for the document environment by modeling the print volume information and the print capability information for different combinations of capability groups, wherein the one or more recommended print-related devices satisfy the environment requirements.