Patent ID: 9645774
Date: 2017-05-09
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A system for managing print jobs associated with multiple customers, comprising: at least one computer-readable storage media which stores a plurality of individual print jobs received from multiple different electronic devices via a network, each individual print job comprising a graphical print job data and associated commercial data; at least one server which accesses the storage media via the network to search the commercial data associated with the stored plurality of individual print jobs and select individual print jobs from the media which are characterized as having at least some common printing requirements, and which automatically aggregates at least some of the selected individual print jobs into an aggregate print job, wherein the aggregate print job comprises a meta file and a layout file, the meta file comprising at least some commercial data associated with each of the selected individual print jobs and the layout file comprising the corresponding graphical print job data of the selected individual print job, and wherein the selected individual print jobs in the aggregate print job are printed at one time on one or more units of a shared substrate when the aggregate print job is printed.