Patent ID: 8248652

Claim:
An N-up printing system adapted to receive a print job from a host system for printing to a tangible medium, wherein the print job comprises a first logical page, the printing system comprising: an N-up formatter interface adapted to receive formatting parameters; and an N-up formatter communicatively coupled to the N-up formatter interface and adapted to generate a first page inclusion object based on the formatting parameters, wherein the N-up formatter is further adapted to input the first logical page to the first page inclusion object and position the first logical page within the first page inclusion object, wherein the print job comprises a second logical page and the N-up formatter is further adapted to generate a second page inclusion object based on the received formatting parameters, wherein the second page inclusion object is adapted to digitally include one or more logical pages, wherein the N-up formatter is further adapted to position the second logical page within the second page inclusion object and position the second page inclusion object to print on a second sheet side of the tangible medium, and wherein the N-up formatter is further adapted to associate the first page inclusion object with the second page inclusion object to respectively print on the first and second sheet sides of the tangible medium at corresponding locations.