Patent ID: 8144349

Claim:
A system for distributing printed documents, comprising: print device logic, configured on one or more print devices, comprising a Web Services server, wherein the print device logic is configured to send one or more Web Services messages that indicate attributes of a print device; sender print manager logic of a client computer comprising a first Web Services client that is coupled over a network to the print device logic; wherein the sender print manager logic is configured to store the attributes of the one or more print devices, to request print history information from the one or more print devices, to determine one or more preferred print devices, from the one or more print devices, that are preferred by one or more recipients based on the print history information, and to store a mapping of identifiers of the recipients in association with identifiers of the one or more preferred print devices; and wherein the sender print manager logic is configured to receive information identifying one or more recipients, other than the client computer, of a message having an attached document, to select one or more of the one or more preferred print devices based on the mapping associated with the one or more recipients, and to initiate one or more print jobs to print a document for the one or more recipients on the one or more selected preferred print devices.