Patent ID: 8032841

Claim:
A printing job exception page handling method comprising: associating each page of a print job with a page object and a sheet object, wherein the page object and sheet object are linked as separate objects; displaying visual cues of one or more pages of the print job, wherein the visual cues display one of a thumbnail and icon view of each page of the print job with the respective page object and the respective sheet object; selectively associate one or more attributes with a user selected page object from the visual cue wherein the exception page handling method modifies the linked sheet object attributes consistent with the page object attributes; and selectively associate one or more attributes with a user selected sheet object from the visual cue, wherein the exception page handling method modifies one or more linked page objects consistent with the sheet object attributes; wherein the visual cue includes a graphical representation of the print job, the graphical representation simultaneously including the user selected page object, the modified sheet object, the user selected sheet object, the linked page object and a plurality of other print pages not user selected and not linked to a modified user selected object, and the graphical representation includes a sheet view of the print job displaying a series of individual sheets of paper horizontally aligned sequentially as sheet 1 Front, sheet 1 Back, sheet 2 Front, sheet 2 Back.