Patent ID: 8493601

Claim:
A paper document output device comprising: a print subsystem configured to produce, based on an electronic representation of a document, a hardcopy of the document on one or more pages of physical media; a tag subsystem configured to write an identifier to a radio-frequency identification (RFID) tag physically associated with the one or more pages of physical media, the identifier uniquely identifying the hardcopy of the document; and a communications subsystem configured to enable communication between the paper document output device and a host device, wherein the communication subsystem is configured to: receive the electronic representation of the document from the host device; and after the identifier has been written to the RFID tag, transmit to the host device the identifier and information about a physical location of the hardcopy of the document, for storage in a paper document tracking database, wherein the paper document tracking database includes correlation information linking the identifier and the physical location of the hardcopy of the document.