Patent ID: 7408658

Claim:
A graphical user interface comprising: a toolkit portion including a plurality of icons that can be selected by a user, wherein each of the plurality of icons represents an operation that can be performed by a printing device; a workspace portion into which the user can have placed one or more of the plurality of icons and in which the user can arrange the one or more of the plurality of icons in an order to identify a sequence of one or more operations of the printing device and generate a workflow for the printing device, wherein the printing device performs the one or more operations in the order of the identified sequence when the generated workflow is selected; a properties portion where one or more properties of an operation in the workflow can be set, wherein the properties portion displays properties associated with a respective icon and replaces the toolkit portion with the properties when the respective icon is selected; and a save button via which the user can select to save the generated workflow, wherein an icon for the generated workflow is added to the toolkit portion when the generated workflow is saved.