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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 13, 2012
Filed:
Aug. 29, 2008
Sudhendu Rai, Fairport, NY (US);
Jie Lin, Rochester, NY (US);
Sudhendu Rai, Fairport, NY (US);
Jie Lin, Rochester, NY (US);
Xerox Corporation, Norwalk, CT (US);
Abstract
A print shop consolidation system including a print shop consolidation management system with an application is provided. The application is used to (1) evaluate, with a set of information, an operational capacity of a first print shop to process both a first group of print jobs and a second group of print jobs, (2) evaluate, with the set of information, an operational capacity of the second print shop to process both the first and second groups of print jobs, and (3) use the evaluations of (1) and (2) to consolidate processing of the first and second groups of print jobs at one of first and second print shops.