Patent ID: 8711404

Claim:
A method performed by a server for incorporating one or more advertisements within a physically printed document, comprising: a. capturing a print request by the server from a client computer, said print request including at least dimensions indicating a size of a first paper stock a page of the print request is intended to be printed on and printing data intended to be printed on a page of the first paper stock; b. selecting, automatically by the server, from a plurality of printing templates in a memory at the server, a printing template, the printing template dictating a printing layout corresponding to a second paper stock and comprising a first portion and a second portion, the first portion having dimensions that correlate to the dimensions included in the print request, wherein the second portion is located outside of the first portion and outside of the dimensions included in the print request, wherein each of the plurality of printing templates dictates a printing layout; c. creating, automatically by the server, a second print request by at least inserting, automatically by the server, the printing data of a page of the print request into the first portion, and inserting, automatically by the server, an advertisement into the second portion; and d. directing, automatically by the server, the second print request to a printer for printing a page with an inserted advertisement on the second paper stock, wherein the server is separate from the printer and the client device.