Xerox Corporation

James C Strossman

Michael William Barrett

Peter M Krist

Katherine E Hayes

Hollise G Mitter-Brown

Linda D King

There is provided an accounting system for a document processing system which executes one or more jobs with multiple document processing facilities. One of the jobs is identified by a unique identifier and has its origin in a document in a hardcopy or electronic form. A first portion of the one job is processed with a first one of the multiple document processing facilities, in accordance with a first set of control instructions, to result in a first accountable event characterized by a first set of one or more attribute values, and a second portion of the one job is processed with a second one of the multiple document processing facilities, in accordance with a second set of control instructions to result in a second accountable event characterized by a second set of one or more attribute values. The accounting system includes an account log for storing a first set of information and a second set of information, the first and second sets of information respectively including the first and second sets of one or more attribute values, and the first and second sets of information being associated with one another by reference to the unique identifier. The accounting further includes an account log manager, communicating with the first and second ones of the multiple document processing facilities, for receiving the first and second sets of information from the first and second ones of the multiple document processing facilities to store the first and second sets of information in the account log as a virtually integrated unit.

Accounting system for use with document processing system

There is provided a method of labeling a job in a printing system. The method includes the steps of storing, in memory, a list of electronic labels and displaying, on a display screen, both the list of electronic labels and a print outline with a selected identifiable area. The selected identifiable area is positionable on the print outline for representing a relative size, location and orientation of an area on a print upon which a selected one of the electronic labels is to be printed, and the displaying step includes applying a grid to the list so that a series of cells is superposed relative to the the electronic labels. In operation, a first location at which a copy of the selected electronic label is to be printed on a selected one of a plurality of prints is indicated and a plurality of prints, with the selected electronic label printed on the selected print at the first location, is produced when all of the selected electronic label is disposed in a selected one of the series of cells.

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Rose, NY, United States of America

James C Strossman