Patent ID: 7525676

Claim:
A system comprising: a multifunction device comprising: (i) an input device for receiving constraint data that identifies a group of multifunction features available on the multifunction device for at least two client devices in a plurality of client devices coupled to the multifunction device; and (ii) a memory for storing the constraint data in association with at least one client device, a first set of constraint data stored in the memory of the multifunction device that corresponds to a first client device in the plurality of client devices, and a second set of constraint data stored in the memory of the multifunction device that corresponds to a second client device in the plurality of client devices, the second set of constraint data identifying a group of multifunction devices features different from a group of multifunction device features identified by the first set of constraint data; and a first client device having a multifunction device driver, the multifunction device driver of the first client device being configured to generate a print job for the multifunction device in accordance with the first set of constraint data received from the multifunction device; and a second client device having a multifunction device driver, the multifunction device driver of the second client device being configured to generate a print job for the multifunction device in accordance with the second set of constraint data received from the multifunction device.