Apparatus and method for determining printer option availability and representing conflict resolution in a combination of print job selections

摘要

A printing arrangement of the type having a printer bank with a plurality of printers (12) is provided. The printers are respectively associated with printer profiles (44) and each of the printer profiles has a list of printer properties available at the printer with which the printer profile is associated. The printing arrangement includes : an input section, located remotely from the printer bank, with a user interface (U1) for programming a combination of print job selections and a memory section for storing a selected one of the printer profiles ; and a combination examiner (37) for comparing the programmed combination of print job selections from the user interface with a combination of printer properties available in the selected one of the printer profiles from the memory section wherein the combination of print job selections is transmitted to one of the plurality of printers associated with the selected one of the printer profiles when the combination of print job selections corresponds with the combination of printer properties available at the selected printer.