Patent ID: 7869079

Claim:
A printing system for automatic print job submission comprising: a printer having an integral print controller comprising a universal serial bus port and a plurality of individually identifiable print queues, wherein said individually identifiable print queues are identified by a name that specifies print order, and wherein the print controller is configured with a peripheral device detection application; and a universal serial bus memory storage device configured with a plurality of folders, each folder configured for storing at least one electronic file, wherein the at least one electronic file is in a printable format and configured with queue assignment information, wherein the universal serial bus memory storage device is adapted to couple with the universal serial bus port, and wherein each folder is configured with a folder name that substantially corresponds with one or more of said plurality of individually identifiable print queues; wherein the print controller is configured to automatically copy the at least one electronic file in a printable format from at least one folder from among the plurality of folders to at least one of the corresponding individually identifiable print queues, and wherein the print controller is configured with an auto-queue application that is invoked by said peripheral device detection application when the universal serial bus memory storage device is physically coupled with the universal serial bus port of the print controller, such that said auto-queue application automatically initiates a print job, whereby automatic initiation of a print job includes such that automatic print job submission of said at least one electronic file from at least one folder with a name that substantially matches the name of at least one identifiable print queue to said matching individually identifiable print queue in an order specified by said print order without any further interaction by an operator of the printing system and printing a print job according to said print order.