Patent ID: 8179555

Claim:
A method of producing a customized document, the method comprising: registering a capability of a plurality of printing and finishing systems of a plurality of document production modules provided at different points-of-need with an administration module; designing a plurality of intelligent templates for the customized document based on the capability of the printing and finishing systems of the document production modules at the different points-of-need; retrieving at least one intelligent template for the customized document based on the capability of the printing and finishing systems of the document production modules at the different points-of-need, including selecting the at least one intelligent template as specified for a respective printing and finishing system at a respective point-of-need; customizing the at least one intelligent template based on the capability of the respective printing and finishing system at the respective point-of-need, including creating an intelligent document; distributing, by the administration module, production of the customized document to a respective document production module including the respective printing and finishing system at the respective point-of-need; and producing the customized document with the respective printing and finishing system at the respective point-of-need based on the intelligent document.