Patent ID: 8320008

Claim:
A printing system, comprising: a print process device operable to interface between a client system and a physical printer to process a print job and an associated job ticket in a print data stream from the client system for printing on the physical printer, wherein the job ticket comprises printing parameters operable to print one or more documents of the print job on the physical printer; wherein the print process device comprises: a database operable to store the job ticket, and to parse fields in the job ticket for updating at least one component of the printing system with the printing parameters, to identify a missing value in at least one of the fields of the job ticket, and to replace the missing value of the job ticket with a null value; a job ticket editor communicatively coupled to the database and operable to edit the job ticket during processing of the print job; the database further operable to identify a missing value of a printing parameter in the edited job ticket, to determine whether the missing value within the edited job ticket is permissible with the print data stream, to replace the missing value with a default value to update the edited job ticket in response to determining that the missing value in the edited job ticket is impermissible for the print data stream, and to update the stored job ticket with the edited job ticket.