Patent ID: 8810811

Claim:
A method for producing a printed product in accordance with a print job, the method comprising the following steps: providing the print job with at least one reference object, which itself can include at least one base object; providing at least one job file including input variables associated with the base objects and the reference objects and describing desired properties of the reference objects and base objects; providing rule sets referring to print jobs having at least two rules stored in a rule set database which is accessible via a network, the rule sets being a function of input variables and output variables of the printed product to be produced; assigning the reference objects to lists with the at least two rules; assessing, for the assigning step, at least one input variable of the reference objects and the base objects included by the reference objects on the basis of a true/false relationship, with the at least two rules; processing the at least two rules successively; assessing, with each following rule, the input variables of the reference objects having been assigned to a specific list by the preceding rules; assigning the reference objects to further lists in a branching manner, in accordance with the assessing step; and assigning each of the last lists branched in accordance with the rule sets of output variables, according to which the printed product is produced.