Patent ID: 8441660

Claim:
A method in a printing device including a printing module configured to generate an image on media, a network interface configured to communicate with at least one other printing device, and a controller configured to control operations of the printing device, the method comprising: providing print job forwarding preference options by displaying the print job forwarding preference options to a user, wherein the print job forwarding preference options include options for print job preferences based on printing device capabilities; receiving print job forwarding preferences at the printing device by a user interface configured to receive forwarding preferences from a user, wherein the print job forwarding preferences include at least one mandatory print job preference that specifies a mandatory printing device capability for a specific print job and include at least one desirable print job preference that specifies a desirable printing device capability for the specific print job; determining whether the specific print job requires forwarding from the printing device to another printing device; and forwarding the specific print job for printing if the specific print job requires forwarding.