Patent ID: 8693014

Claim:
A system comprising: a translation system configured to receive a plurality of print jobs submitted by clients to a print shop architecture, wherein each of the print jobs includes a corresponding job ticket, for each of the print jobs, the translation system is further configured to identify extension elements in a corresponding job ticket that describe services requested by a client, wherein the extension elements are extensions to a job ticket standard used by the print shop architecture; a storage system configured to store translations for clients that map the extension elements to standard elements defined in the job ticket standard, wherein the translation system is further configured to identify a client that submitted a print job, to locate a translation in the storage system for a job ticket of the print job based on the client, and to map the extension elements used by the client to standard elements using the translation to generate a normalized job ticket; and a submission system configured to transmit normalized job tickets to a system of the print shop architecture for generating workflows for the print jobs based on the normalized job tickets.