Patent ID: 8947698
Filing Date: 2015-02-03
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. In a data processing system having a plurality of installed or available printers for printing of one or more generated print jobs, a computer implemented method comprising: in response to receiving a first individual print job with a selection of a first printer for completion, queuing the first individual print job for completion at the first printer, wherein the first individual print job is a single document and the single document is assigned to the first printer for completion, independent of a printer allocation of other single documents; visually presenting, within a printer controller window, a selectable menu option having a plurality of printer options, including a printer level view and a document level view in which each of the queued documents are indicated in a primary list, with an associated printer and other associated features provided in adjacent columns next to the document indicators; in response to a selection of the document level view within the selectable menu option of the printer controller window to a printer level view, displaying a document-level view within the printer controller window, wherein the document level view provides the listing of queued documents and enables movement and manipulation of the queued documents across the multiple available/installed printers in response to one or more different inputs supported by one or more selectable options enabled within the document-level view, and wherein the document level view of queued print jobs is different from and provided in addition to a printer level view that shows the listing of printers and corresponding printer statuses; wherein displaying a document-level view further comprises: opening and displaying a drop-down menu option having a selectable option that enables a change from the printer level view to the document level view; and toggling between respective ones of the document level view and the printer level view based on selections received within the drop down menu option of the printer controller window; and in response to receiving a selection to move at least a portion of the first individual print job, while the first individual print job is pending within a first print queue of the first printer and before the first individual print job has completed on the first printer, moving the at least the portion of the first individual print job from the first print queue to a second print queue of a second printer, whereby the at least the portion of the first individual print job is printed on the second printer and any remaining portion of the first individual print job is printed on the first printer.