A document generation system includes a printing system and a computer.
The printing system includes a print engine, a scanner, a controller and
a user interface. The computer is remotely located from but coupled to
the printing system. The computer includes software for generating an
electronic document and software for designating an insertion point in
the electronic document wherein a scanned image of a hardcopy document is
to be inserted prior to generating a finished document including the
electronic document and an image of the scanned hardcopy document. The
controller includes software for identifying the insertion point and for
holding the electronic document until the hardcopy document is scanned
before generating the finished document including the electronic document
and the image of the scanned hardcopy document. A method for intermixing
hardcopy pages in a print job utilizes insertion points inserted into an
electronic document to identify the location at which scanned images of
hardcopy documents are to be inserted in a finished document.