Patent ID: 8237978

Claim:
A method for generation of customer-specific print jobs for customers to create individualized media print copies of at least one media title for the customers, comprising the steps of: providing a publisher computer system connected to a print production computer system for outputting said print jobs to a printing apparatus, said publisher computer system comprising an editing computer, a data base containing customer-specific data for the customers, and a job system; with said editing computer generating running list data comprising names of all media pages of the media title for a specific output point in time; with the job system generating job data files for the customers from the customer-specific data and the running list data; with said editing computer also creating editorial content data files for at feast some of said media pages; at said specific output point in time transferring the job data files to the print production computer system; also transferring with said editing computer said editorial content data files for corresponding media pages to the print production computer system at feast at one point in time which is after said specific output point in time when the job data files are transferred; in said print production computer system also generating individual page frame data files that correspond to customer-specific layouts for the job data files for the customers; also in said print production computer system generating control files for the job data files for the customers; and using said control fifes, merging the editorial content data files with the individual page frame data files to create print data for said customer-specific print jobs to be printed by said printing apparatus.