Patent ID: 7454397

Claim:
A computer-implemented method for a print shop comprising: providing a system of classification comprising a set of classifications in a print shop vocabulary of print products that can be created by a print shop, varied by specific production methods for producing the print products, receiving a product description of a print product, collecting facts concerning classifying said product description, providing classification rules, consistent with the form of facts, for classifying said product description under a classification of said system of classification, applying said classification rules to said collected facts so as to classify said product description under at least one classification of a print product that can be created by said print ship in accordance with said classification rules, determining the classification(s) under which said product description has been classified; updating said classification rules and/or said system of classification in response to inconclusive or incorrect classifying of said product description under a classification and/or in response to multiple classifying of said product description under a plurality of classifications such that subsequently applying said updated classification rules and/or said updated system of classification to said collected facts successfully classifies said product description into the print shop vocabulary under a single classification of a print product that can be created by said print shop; and translating said print product description in said print shop vocabulary to a process network, said process network being a set of processing instructions that when executed in the order specified by the process network result in the print product.