Patent ID: 7405836

Claim:
In a document processing system with at least one document processing subsystem where a job, including a set of images represented by a set of image data, is processed multiple times and in multiple renderings, in response to input provided by a user, to obtain first and second job processing events of the job corresponding to the first and second renderings, respectively, a method comprising: programming 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 the first job processing event; programming 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 the second job processing event; linking a master job control ticket with user selectable global attributes and user selectable individual ticket attributes to the first and second job control tickets wherein the global attributes comprise first properties of the first and second job control tickets and the individual attributes comprise second properties of a selected individual one of the first and second job control tickets and wherein the first and second job processing events are based on the same set of image data; linking the master job control ticket with the first and second job control tickets and the set of images so that, with one submission of the job to the document processing subsystem, the job is processed in the first job processing event with the first job control ticket and in the second job processing event with the second job control ticket so that the same job data is applied to the first and second job processing events, wherein the job need not be submitted multiple times to the document processing subsystem to accommodate the multiple renderings.