Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Scott Matthew Jones

Marquis G Waller

Michael Glen Lotz

Linda Sue Liebelt

Jeffrey Alan Sikkink

Thomas Nathan Bilan

Systems and methods are provided for merging print data and metadata for a print job processed in a print workflow. One system is a print server that monitors an input device that receives print files and metadata files, groups at least one print file and at least one metadata file into a batch based on a predetermined pattern defined for the input device, and initiates processing of the batch as a print job in a print workflow in response to a determination that the batch meets a threshold condition. A step of the print workflow is configured to merge document properties from the at least one print file and the at least one metadata file into a single document properties file. Subsequent steps in the print workflow process the print job according to the single document properties file.

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Longmont, CO, United States of America

Scott Matthew Jones