US 8,786,877 B2 · Modification of post-print instructions for documents of print jobs already within an ADF system

Abstract

Systems and methods for modification of post-print instructions. The system includes a data center and a post-printing system. The data center is operable to receive a first print job that includes a plurality of documents and a first post-print instruction defining how the documents are processed after printing. The data center is also operable to receive a request that one or more documents in the print job be processed according to a second post-print instruction, and to extract the document(s) from the print job to generate a second print job. The second print job includes the extracted document(s) and the second post-print instruction defining how the document(s) are processed after printing. The post-printing system is operable to process the remaining documents of the first print job according to the first post-print instruction, and to process the document(s) of the second print job according to the second post-print instruction.

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Dependent claims

An Automated Document Factory (ADF) system comprising:

a data center operable to receive a first print job that includes a plurality of documents and a first post-print instruction defining how the documents are processed after printing, to receive a request, while the first print job is being rasterized, that at least one document in the first print job be processed according to a second post-print instruction, to cancel printing of the at least one document, to extract the at least one document from the first print job, to generate a second print job, to populate the second print job with the at least one document extracted from the first print job, to include the second post-print instruction with the second print job to define how documents of the second print job are processed after printing, to rasterize and transmit remaining documents of the first print job for printing, and to rasterize and transmit the documents of the second print job for printing;
and
a post-printing system operable to process remaining documents of the first print job according to the first post-print instruction, and to process the documents of the second print job according to the second post-print instruction.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Modification of post-print instructions for documents of print jobs already within an ADF system

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Modification of post-print instructions for documents of print jobs already within an ADF system

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