Abstract: There is provided an accounting system for a document processing system which executes one or more jobs with multiple document processing facilities. One of the jobs is identified by a unique identifier and has its origin in a document in a hardcopy or electronic form. A first portion of the one job is processed with a first one of the multiple document processing facilities, in accordance with a first set of control instructions, to result in a first accountable event characterized by a first set of one or more attribute values, and a second portion of the one job is processed with a second one of the multiple document processing facilities, in accordance with a second set of control instructions to result in a second accountable event characterized by a second set of one or more attribute values.

Abstract: There is provided a method of labeling a job in a printing system. The method includes the steps of storing, in memory, a list of electronic labels and displaying, on a display screen, both the list of electronic labels and a print outline with a selected identifiable area. The selected identifiable area is positionable on the print outline for representing a relative size, location and orientation of an area on a print upon which a selected one of the electronic labels is to be printed, and the displaying step includes applying a grid to the list so that a series of cells is superposed relative to the the electronic labels. In operation, a first location at which a copy of the selected electronic label is to be printed on a selected one of a plurality of prints is indicated and a plurality of prints, with the selected electronic label printed on the selected print at the first location, is produced when all of the selected electronic label is disposed in a selected one of the series of cells.