Patent Document ID: 8441655
Application ID: 12245889

Base Claim:
1. A print controller in a printing system, the print controller comprising: a reprogrammable page description language (PDL) processor that defines a function of a page-break indicator; and a job ticket interpreter; wherein the print controller is configured to receive a printable file from a host system, the printable file comprising a plurality of page-break indicators, each page-break indicator indicating a logical page; and the print controller is configured to receive a job ticket that is associated with the printable file and that comprises layout parameters; and the job ticket interpreter is configured to re-define the function of the page-break indicator of the reprogrammable PDL processor in accordance with the layout parameters in the job ticket; and the print controller is configured to print a plurality of the logical pages of the printable file after the job ticket interpreter re-defines the function of the page-break indicator.

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Claim 7:
7. The print controller of claim 1 wherein: the job ticket interpreter comprises a JDF (Job Definition Format) job ticket interpreter.