Patent ID: 8107101

Claim:
A printing system for media containing one or a plurality of programmable identifiers, the system comprising a processor capable of executing instructions for: forwarding programming data in a first print job to an identifier and programming the identifier based upon the programming data; automatically reading data from the identifier in response to a second print job; comparing the data from the identifier with the programming data; and indicating to a user a result of the comparison, wherein the printing system comprises a printer for printing images onto sheets of media, the first print job and the second print job are combined by the processor into a single print job, the identifier is located in or on a first sheet of the sheets of media, and wherein the forwarding, reading, comparing and indicating are performed by the printer before the first sheet is provided to the user; wherein the printer includes a duplex unit, and the processor causes the first sheet of media containing the identifier to pass through the duplex unit prior to the reading of the data from the identifier so that the programming is performed in a first pass of the first sheet through the printer and the reading is performed in a second pass of the first sheet through the printer using the duplex unit.