Document lifecycle tracking system and method for use with a document production process

摘要

A method for monitoring the status of documents created by a large scale document production and management processes. The production and management process may be comprised of a plurality of different stages including: utilizing a print stream to generate the documents, printing documents on a printer in accordance with the print stream, and forming completed mail pieces on an inserter from the printed documents in accordance with mail piece creation data files. A monitoring system receives information regarding the status of individual documents within these production and management process stages. A user may then select one of the stages for closer inspection of the status of documents. For the selected stage, status of individual documents is displayed <custom-character file="US20050031162A1-20050210-P00999.TIF" wi="151.6" he="8.4" id="custom-character-00001" alt="text missing or illegible when filed"/>