Patent ID: 7839513

Claim:
A hybrid document printing system for printing a single job using a color printer and a monochrome printer, comprising: a splitter for parsing multiple jobs into a first collective group of colored pages and a second group including monochrome pages segmented by tickets corresponding to each one job of the multiple jobs; a first color printer for printing the first collective group to produce colored output, the first color printer also printing a banner page identifying the each one job and an integrity mark on each one page of the colored output; a tray for placing the colored output in a feeder; a second monochrome printer for printing monochrome output for the second group, an interposer for interposing the colored pages into proper placement in the monochrome output to reassemble the each one print job of the multiple jobs; an integrity mark sensor included after an output path of the second monochrome printer for reading the integrity mark on the each one page of colored output as the colored output is fed to the interposer, the sensor determining an error using a unique identification of the integrity mark corresponding to the each one page, the error is detected when at least one page of the monochrome output is interposed with the color output of a different print job; software for halting a print operation of the second monochrome printer upon detection of the error, the software purging at least remaining pages of the colored output corresponding to a spoiled one print job of the multiple jobs associated with the error; and, a print manager for generating a status report and marking the spoiled one print job corresponding to the error as spoiled on the status report; wherein the each one print job is identified as being distinct from a remainder of the multiple jobs by the banner sheets separating the each one print job from the remainder multiple jobs.