Patent Document ID: 7746506
Application ID: 11021437
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. An image production method, comprising: receiving image production instructions directing the production of an image, the image production instructions corresponding to a print job; generating enhanced eye-mark data for an enhanced eye-mark having a first portion, a second portion, and a third portion, the first portion encoding a finishing instruction, the second portion providing a textual description of one of the finishing instruction and the print job, the third portion encoding data identifying the print job; causing an image forming device to form the image and the enhanced eye-mark on print media; electronically reading the first portion and the third portion of the enhanced eye-mark formed on the print media; decoding the first portion to identify the finishing instruction and the third portion to identify the print job; directing a performance of a finishing operation on the print media according to the finishing instruction; and updating status data for the print job identified by decoding the third portion according to the performance of the finishing operation, the updated status data identifying a current status of the print job that includes an indication of the performance of the finishing operation.