Patent ID: 8145517

Claim:
A system of scheduling a plurality of print jobs in a document production environment, the system comprising: a plurality of print job processing devices; a computing device; and a computer-readable storage medium in communication with the computing device, wherein the computer-readable storage medium comprises one or more programming instructions that, when executed, cause the computing device to: receive a plurality of print jobs and at least one setup characteristic corresponding to each print job, wherein each print job has a corresponding job size, group the plurality of print jobs into one or more print job sets based on a common characteristic, identify each print job set as a fast job set or a slow job set based on one or more setup characteristics associated with the print job set and the job sizes of the print jobs in the print job set, wherein the fast job set comprises print jobs having similar setup characteristics, wherein the slow job set comprises print jobs having substantially different setup characteristics, route the fast job set to a fast job autonomous cell comprising one or more first print job processing devices for processing the fast job set, and route the slow job set to a slow job autonomous cell comprising one or more second print job processing devices for processing the slow job set.