Patent ID: 7251047

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving a document and a request to process a document using a virtual media tray; wherein the printer first determines whether the print tray is a virtual media tray managed by the printer, wherein the virtual media tray comprises a combination of a physical paper tray identifier and one or more elements from the group elements comprising: an operation that causes the system to forward a copy of the document to a network location, an operation that causes the system to email a copy of the document to an email address, an operation that causes the system to fax a copy of the document to a fax number, and a combined operation that may be associated with one or more above three operations; wherein only the document is physically printed when it is determined that the print tray is not a virtual media tray and otherwise the operations associated with the virtual media tray are performed and the document physically located in the physical media tray with the associated paper tray identifier is printed.