Patent ID: 9729735
Date: 2017-08-08
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04N

Claim:
1. A method for pre-rendering a print job to a print-ready document format in a print system comprising a plurality of print devices, the method comprising: by a print server, receiving a print job from a mobile electronic device of a user via a communications network; by the print server, generating a prediction of at least one candidate print device in the print system that may be selected for printing the print job by: by the print server, accessing a data set of print device data corresponding to one or more of the candidate print devices to identify one or more print-ready document formats that one or more of the candidate print devices are capable of using for printing the print job; predicting an estimated number of print-ready document formats based on: by the print server, pre-rendering the print job to the identified one or more print-ready document formats before receiving an identification of a print device to be used for printing the print job.