Patent ID: 7777904

Claim:
A method of printing documents in a network system including a printer of a first type and a printer of a second different type, the documents including pages having different device-specific properties such that some of the pages are for printing on a printer of the first type and other pages are for printing on a printer of the second type, the method comprising: submitting a print job for printing; automatically analyzing data of the print job with respect to device-specific properties of its pages and designating each page, on the basis of the analysis, either for processing on a printer of the first type or for processing on a printer of the second type; automatically making the entire print job locally available for selection and subsequent print processing by commands from the relevant printer's local user interface, on all printers of the first type as well as on all printers of the second type, irrespective of any print processing of that job in other printers, and leaving that print job available for printing on any of the other printers; locally starting printing of a respective print job on an arbitrary one of said printers, irrespective of the type of that printer, through selection of the job from a list of available print jobs and a print command on the local user interface of that printer; and during the print processing of said print job, automatically selecting those pages of the job that are designated for that type of printer, and printing those selected pages only.