MANAGING PRINT JOBS

摘要

Systems and methods for managing print jobs associated with multiple customers. Customer-editable design templates for printed products and design software tools enabling creation by customers of custom print product designs are provided, via a network, to multiple customers operating corresponding electronic devices. Individual print jobs corresponding to custom print product designs created by multiple different customers via the electronic devices are received and automatically aggregated into an aggregate print job comprising individual print jobs from different customers. The aggregated individual print jobs in the aggregate print job are printed simultaneously on one or more units of a shared substrate when the aggregate print job is printed.

主权项

1. A system for managing print jobs associated with multiple customers, comprising:
at least one computer-readable storage media which stores a plurality of individual print jobs received from multiple different electronic devices via a network, each individual print job comprising a graphical print job data and associated commercial data; the at least one server configured to search the commercial data associated with the stored plurality of individual print jobs to select individual print jobs from the media which are characterized as having at least some common printing requirements; the at least one server further configured to automatically aggregate at least some of the selected individual print jobs into an aggregate print job, the aggregate print job comprising a meta file and a layout file, the meta file comprising at least some commercial data associated with each of the selected individual print jobs and the layout file comprising the corresponding graphical print job data of the selected individual print job, whereby the selected individual print jobs in the aggregate print job are printed at one time on one or more units of a shared substrate when the aggregate print job is printed.