Patent ID: 7961342

Claim:
A system for developing a print job, comprising: A. a processor; B. a print job workflow, communicating with said processor, the print job workflow defining a plurality of print job prepress development operations to be performed with respect to the print job, the plurality of print job prepress development operations being arranged in a print job prepress development path, wherein at least one of the print job prepress development operations is operatively associated with a parameter and programmed to perform adaptive processing with the parameter; C. a memory for storing a job ticket, the job ticket including a set of print job related information, said memory comprising one or more programming instructions that, when executed, instruct the processor to: (1) execute each prepress development operation in the print job prepress development path, (2) pursuant to said C(1), determining whether the print job prepress development operation to be executed comprises the at least one of the print job prepress development operations, (3) if the print job prepress development operation to be executed comprises the at least one of the print job prepress development operations, then adaptively using the parameter, along with a subset of the set of print job related information, to perform adaptive processing with respect to the at least one or the print job prepress development operations, and (4) if the print job prepress development operation to be executed does not comprise the at least one of the print job prepress development operations, then execute the print job prepress development operation to be executed without performing any adaptive processing.