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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 06, 2011
Filed:
Dec. 27, 2006
Toshiro Fujimori, Laguna Beach, CA (US);
Geoff W. Harmon, Mission Viejo, CA (US);
Rakesh Pandit, Irvine, CA (US);
Shigenori Matsubara, Irvine, CA (US);
Toshiro Fujimori, Laguna Beach, CA (US);
Geoff W. Harmon, Mission Viejo, CA (US);
Rakesh Pandit, Irvine, CA (US);
Shigenori Matsubara, Irvine, CA (US);
Konica Minolta Laboratory U.S.A., Inc., San Mateo, CA (US);
Abstract
A method is described for managing a print shop system in which a plurality of printers are connected to and managed by a server. The server receives a print job including a job ticket and source document to be printed, and generates two or more sub-jobs each including a sub-job ticket and a sub-document by analyzing the job ticket and the content of the source document. The two or more sub-jobs are submitted to a plurality of printers and/or finishing devices in accordance with the sub-job tickets. One particular example is color split printing where black and white pages and color pages of a source document are split into two sub-jobs to be printed by a black and white printer and a color printer, respectively.