Patent ID: 7532357

Claim:
In a document processing system having a document processing subsystem in which a job, including a set of image data and a job control ticket, is processed each time the job, along with the job control ticket, is submitted to the document processing system, a job control system comprising: a master job control ticket for controlling a manner in which the job is processed for multiple alternative renderings of the same set of image data in both a first job processing event and a second job processing event wherein the first and second job processing events comprise independent renderings of the image data; and an input source including a user interface with a display, the user interface being used to (a) program a first job control ticket with a first set of attributes, the first job control ticket controlling a manner in which the job is to be processed in a first job processing event, and (b) program a second job control ticket with a second set of attributes, the second job control ticket controlling a manner in which the job is to be processed in a second job processing event; and a linking program, for linking the first and second job control tickets to the master job control ticket wherein a single submission of the job comprises a submission of the set of image data with the master job control ticket and causes the job to be processed as the first and second job processing events, wherein the master job control ticket has user selectable global attributes and user selectable individual ticket attributes within the master job control ticket, the global attributes comprising properties affecting all tickets under the master job control ticket and the individual attributes comprising properties affecting only a selected ticket, and wherein the linking of the global and individual ticket attributes enables the processing of the first and second job processing events based on the same set of image data with the single submission of the job.