Patent ID: RE39641

Claim:
A method for printing a job at a printing machine located remotely from a transmission job originating station, the transmission job originating station including a control subsystem and a document generating subsystem having a user interface for inputting job control instructions for a print job described by a job ticket, the document generating subsystem providing the print job to be delivered to the printing machine for producing a set of prints from the print job, including a set of image data, in accordance with the job ticket, the job ticket including a set of job execution attributes, each job execution attribute being associated with a programmable set of information for defining the corresponding job execution attribute, a first one of the programmable sets of information instructing the printing system transmission job originating station as to a manner in which the transmission job originating station is to generate job status information when at least a portion of the set of image data is processed in accordance with the job ticket, and a second one of the programmable sets of information listing one or more confirmation destinations with each confirmation destination being disposed remotely of the transmission job originating station and including an information receiving subsystem , comprising the steps of: with the user interface, programming the second set of information with the one of or more confirmation destinations; processing at least a portion of the image data at the printing machine in accordance with the job ticket ; and in response to said processing, reading the second set of job programmable information, with the transmission job originating station, for determining each confirmation destination , programmed with said programming, to which the job status information is to be transmitted; and transmitting, with the printing machine transmission subsystem transmission job originating station , the job status information to the information receiving subsystem.