Patent ID: 6535297
Filing Date: 2003-03-18
Classification: G06K

Abstract:
In a multifunctional printing system including a printing machine for producing prints from an electronic document stored therewith, the printing machine including a plurality of document processing services with each of the plurality of document processing services causing one or more document processing operations to be performed relative to the electronic document, an auditron system for controlling a manner in which an accounting of information is performed with respect to one of the plurality of document processing services, comprising:a user interface; a programmable auditron subsystem communicating with said user interface and printing machine, said auditron subsystem being responsive to input at said user interface with the input causing the auditron subsystem to be disposed in one of a plurality of modes relative to the one of the plurality of document processing services; and wherein when said programmable auditron subsystem is disposed in a first one of the plurality of modes, an accounting of each document processing operation performed relative to the one of the plurality of document processing services is maintained on a mandatory basis, and when said programmable auditron subsystem is disposed in a second one of the plurality of modes, accounting of each document processing operation performed relative to the one of the plurality of document processing services is maintained selectively in accordance with user demand.