Patent ID: 8643879

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving, by a printing device, a print job to be printed, said print job having one of a plurality of file formats and one of a plurality of ticketing types; comparing a file format and a ticketing type of said print job with acceptable file format types and acceptable ticketing types acceptable to said printing device; if said file format and said ticketing type of said print job match at least one of said acceptable format types and at least one of said acceptable ticketing types, printing said print job using said printing device; and if said file format of said print job does not match any of said acceptable format types, performing an automatic conversion and printing method, if said ticketing type of said print job does not match any of said acceptable ticketing types, performing said automatic conversion and printing method, said automatic conversion and printing method comprising: sending, by said printing device, said print job to a computerized device operatively connected to said printing device through a computerized network, said computerized device being operatively connected to a plurality of different printing devices in addition to said printing device, said computerized device automatically converting said file format of said print job into one of said acceptable format types to produce a converted print job if said file format of said print job does not match any of said acceptable format types, and said computerized device automatically converting said ticketing type of said print job into one of said acceptable ticketing types to produce said converted print job if said ticketing type of said print job does not match any of said acceptable ticketing types, receiving, by said printing device, said converted print job from said computerized device over said computerized network; and printing, by said printing device, said converted print job.