Patent ID: 8115956

Claim:
A system for variable information printing comprising: a job ticket comprising a scoped instruction and an associated variable information record wherein said variable information record describes one or more pages of a document wherein text, graphics, and images may be changed from one or more pages of said document without stopping or slowing down a printing process; a page description language file comprising a multiplicity of said variable information records; a scope designation that specifies at least one of said multiplicity of said variable information records for variable information printing; a digital front end that submits content with a page description language file-wide scope included in said scored instruction to a rendering device before submitting content having less than page description language file-wide scope to said rendering device, determines an effect of said scope of said page description language in said scoped instruction, determines a print order of said variable information record, processes said print order of said variable information record by determining said scoped instruction to apply to said variable information record, and applies said scoped instruction to said variable information record for variable information printing; and a rendering device that prints said document with an applied said scoped instruction specified by said page description language file to those pages within a scope of said scoped instruction in compliance with said job ticket.