Patent ID: 8730502

Claim:
A method of processing a print job, the method comprising: receiving a first print job by a cloud administration system from a raster image processing queue of one or more print devices located remotely from the cloud administration system, wherein the first print job is to be raster image processed; storing the received first print job in a raster image processing storage module; enabling a first application computing device to access the received first print job from the raster image processing storage module to perform raster image processing on the first print job, wherein the first application computing device is located remotely from the cloud administration system; receiving a second print job from a scan queue of one or more of the print devices; storing the received second print job in a scan processing module; enabling a second application computing device to access the received second print job from the scan processing module, wherein the second application computing device is located remotely from the cloud administration system; receiving a third print job from a hold queue of one or more of the print devices wherein the hold queue is configured to store one or more print jobs to be printed at a future time; and storing the received third print job in a backup storage module associated with the hold queue.