Patent ID: 8095376

Claim:
An automated method for ordering print products by electronic mail, the method comprising: delivering to a computer management system a user e-mail request for at least one print product to be produced by printing; the computer management system automatically selectively retrieving additional user print product information associated with said e-mail request from at least one computer directory service in response to said computer management system receiving said e-mail request for said at least one print product, wherein said additional user print product information comprises text and/or graphical data to be included in the print product itself, and an indication of at least one particular print product template to be populated with said text and/or graphical data, and wherein automatically selectively retrieving said additional user print product information to be printed comprises the computer management system using an originating e-mail address of the user e-mail request received by said computer management system as a key in query against said at least one computer directory service to perform a lookup of said additional user print product information; and the computer management system automatically associating said lookup additional user print product information to said user e-mail request received by said computer management system; the computer management system automatically preparing a print product order using said retrieved user print product information, and wherein automatically preparing said print product order comprises automatically retrieving said at least one particular print product template from an archive of print product templates using said retrieved at least one particular print product template indication; and automatically populating said retrieved text and/or graphical information to be included in said print product into said at least one particular print product template retrieved from said archive.