Patent ID: 8564808

Claim:
A method of processing electronic documents for a plurality of recipients, comprising the steps of: receiving a plurality of electronic documents for the plurality of recipients, wherein each electronic document is associated with one of the plurality of recipients and includes first variable information associated with the recipient thereof; rasterizing each of the plurality of electronic documents into one or more rasterized images, wherein each rasterized image is assigned a unique identifier; generating a run instance for the plurality of recipients, wherein the run instance includes the unique identifiers of the one or more rasterized images and second variable information associated with each recipient; merging the run instance with a template to generate a command stream; and assembling a print version of each of the plurality of electronic documents in accordance with the command stream and the rasterized images identified by the unique identifiers, wherein the print version of the electronic document associated with a recipient includes the second variable information associated with such recipient instead of the first variable information associated with the recipient.