Patent ID: 8085421

Claim:
A method for reducing resource footprints for printer operation outputs, comprising: in response to receiving a request from a print job requestor to print a print job comprising a plurality of different components and a page number amount that is in excess of a maximum number of pages to print per print job as specified by a print job rendering criteria of a printing device, wherein the print job rendering criteria specifies a print job element selection criteria, the printing device automatically: analyzing the print job as a function of the print job rendering criteria to identify a relevance of each of the plurality of print job components to the specified print job element selection criteria; selecting a subset portion of the print job comprising a subset of the analyzed plurality of components that are identified as relevant to the specified print job element selection criteria; and printing a representation of the print job comprising only the subset portion of the print job, wherein the subset portion has a page number amount smaller than the print job page number amount and less than or equal to the maximum number.