Patent ID: 7800774

Claim:
A method for printing a book through use of booklet ganging, the method comprising: causing a menu to be displayed that allows a style configuration to be obtained; obtaining the style configuration after a print command has been executed by an application, wherein the style configuration includes an indication of whether the document is to be ganged, and wherein the style configuration is not obtained by the application; ganging booklets based on the style configuration if the indication indicates that the document is to be ganged, wherein a print processor generates booklet ganged print data, and wherein the print processor comprises: a Page Description Language (PDL) parser for parsing print data; a page splitter for generating logical pages; a page reassembler for reordering the logical pages based on a booklet ordering and a specified booklet grouping; and a print job reassembler for converting booklet data into PDL data and for reassembling the PDL data into a print job with separate Raster Image Processed (RIP) data per booklet; and printing the book through use of the booklet ganging.