Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.P.

Rogelio Robles

Alejandro Wiechers

A system for printing a print job includes a plurality of printers and a print job distribution system which distributes the print job among a number of printers of the plurality of printers. The print job distribution system distributes the print job such that the number of printers complete the print job at substantially one time.

Printing system and method with print job distribution among a number of printers

A system for assembling the various pieces of a complex document that may be created in different formats and/or by different document generating application programs, while preserving the integrity of those individual file formats, and printing the fully assembled complex document. The invention may be generally characterized as (1) arranging individual document files created by different document generating application programs , MSWord&reg;, MSExcel&reg;, and Adobe Acrobat&reg; for example, in different file formats (*.doc, *.xlc, *.pdf) in the order that they will appear in the compound document and then (2) launching the corresponding document generating application program to print each file in the arranged order and thereby print the compound document. In one preferred embodiment of the invention, each individual document file is printed by its respective application program to a page description language (PDL) file (rather than being sent directly to the printer), the individual PDL files are then grouped into a single print job and sent to the printer.

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Jalisco, Mexico

Rogelio Robles