Patent ID: 6894797

Claim:
A method for use in a printing system supporting line-conditioned data stream (LCDS) data, the printing system being in communication with an LCDS source and a plurality of network components, the method comprising the steps of: receiving network data from the plurality of network components, the network data representing network print jobs; receiving line-conditioned data stream data from one of the LCDS source and the plurality of network components, the line-conditioned data stream data representing LCDS jobs; scheduling the network print jobs and the LCDS jobs for processing by the printing system; designating the LCDS job as a container print job; sequentially processing the network print jobs and the container print job based on the scheduling; creating at least one job entity based on the container print job; processing the container print job by processing the at least one job entity; monitoring a status of the processing of the at least one job entity; and, selectively manipulating the at least one job entity by an operator.