System and method of evaluating print shop consolidation options in an enterprise

摘要

A print shop consolidation system for consolidating processing of a first group of print jobs and a second group of prints jobs at one of a first print shop and a second print shop is provided. The print shop consolidation system includes a print shop consolidation print shop consolidation management system, including an application. The application is used to (1) evaluate, with a set of information, an operational capacity of the first print shop to process both the first and second groups of print jobs, (2) evaluate, with the set of information, an operational capacity of the second print shop to process both the first and second groups of print jobs, and (3) consolidate processing of the first and second groups of print jobs at one of first and second print shops, with the evaluations of (1) and (2), so that either (a) processing of the first and second print jobs occurs solely at the first print shop, or (b) processing of the first and second print job occurs solely at the second print shop.