Patent ID: 8848221

Claim:
A method for managing print jobs, comprising the steps of: a. a web-store server receiving a print job order for printing a sequence of more than one articles; b. the web-store server checking a remote cache via a network to determine whether a single printable file is stored therein which contains the sequence of articles matching the print job order; c. if the matching single printable file does not exist, then: c1. the web-store server generating a new single printable file containing the sequence of articles from multiple files of the articles, and creating a unique name for the single printable file which identifies the sequence of the more than one articles contained in the single printable file, and the web-store server transmitting the new printable file to a print server via the network for printing the sequence of articles; and c2. the print server saving the new single printable file in the remote cache; d. if the matching single printable file exists, then: d1. either the web-store server or the print server retrieving the stored single printable file from the remote cache; and d2. the print server using the retrieved single printable file to print the print job without the web-store server creating any part of a new single printable file or transmitting any part of the new single printable file to the print server via the network.