Patent ID: 6522421
Filing Date: 2003-02-18
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
A method of automatically communicating status information relative to a document production job by a printer, the method comprising:providing a printing system with an interface to receive an application file containing the document production job, the printing system having the printer operatively coupled to a server, the server being operatively coupled to a raster image processor within the printing system and a device for recognizing E-mail addresses contained within the application file that includes information to be reproduced as the document reproduction job; secondly providing at least one computational element coupled to the interface; wherein, once the application file is sent to the printing system traverses from the server to the raster image processor no status of the document production job is available to the computational element; determining, within the computational element, if driver based E-mail is available within the application file; responding to the determining step, within the computational element, and embedding E-mail address information in the application file relating to at least one party to receive status information if the determining step identifies that no driver based E-mail is available within the application file; sending the application file to the printing system; detecting the E-mail information at the printing system; processing the application file to produce a printed document; and sending an E-mail message from the printing system to the computational element relative to the status of the document reproduction job.