Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p.

Qing Duan

Jun Zeng

Gary Joseph Dispoto

Krishnendu Chakrabarty

I-Jong Lin

A print production system includes a dispatcher and a task-resource scheduler. The dispatcher sorts print requests for placement among a series of containers to identify relative priorities among all print requests in each container and then merges the containers together to produce a prioritized list of print requests among all containers. Upon release by the dispatcher of a top N print requests from the prioritized list, the scheduler converts the prioritized list into a task-resource schedule for print production.

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