Patent ID: 7652798
Filing Date: 2010-01-26
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A system for storing of print job data comprising: means for acquiring, into a controller associated with a plurality of associated rendering devices, print job data representative of a desired print job, which print job data is comprised of a page description language format associated with a selected printer device and appended printer job language parameter data corresponding to a controller cabinet storage instruction and at least one selected document output parameter associated with the page description language, the at least one document output parameter including a document finishing setting including stapling number of copies or hole-punch; parsing means for parsing the parameter data to extract the cabinet storage instruction and the at least one document output parameter; converting means associated with the controller for converting acquired print job data into bitmapped image data; means for generating a printout from a rendering device having a smallest job queue associated therewith in accordance with an output of the controller in accordance with the at least one document output parameter parsed from the parameter data; means for receiving storage location data corresponding to a selected cabinet from a plurality thereof corresponding to a source of the print job data; storage means for selectively storing the print job data in the page description format in a selected storage location of the controller contemporaneously with the parameter data associated therewith in accordance with the cabinet storage instruction parsed from the parameter data; means for acquiring print status information including data representative of name associated with the print job data and data representative of a size of the print job data; the storage means including means for selectively storing the print status information associatively with the print job data; means for receiving a cabinet access instruction; testing means for testing identification data corresponding to the received cabinet access instruction; means for selectively communicating the print job data to generate an image corresponding thereto on an associated display device in accordance with an output of the testing means indicative of authorization to access a cabinet indicated by the cabinet access instruction, the print job data corresponding to the print job data stored in the page description format in the storage location; means for receiving selection data in accordance with the image from the associated display device, which selection data includes an instruction to commence at least a second rendering of associated print job information stored in the page description format; means for receiving edit data corresponding to selected edits to the stored parameter data; the converting means including means for completing a second conversion of the print job information stored in the page description format to the bitmapped image data; and means for selectively communicating the bitmapped image data of the second conversion of print job data to the selected printer device to obtain a subsequent printout thereof in accordance with the stored parameter data and received edits thereto.