15. The improvement of claim 14 wherein said rendering means includes a printer for performing a printing process, and said encoded description defines at least one attribute of said printing process.
14. In an electronic document processing system having scanner means for transforming information from a hardcopy domain to an electronic domain, and rendering means for transferring representations of human readable information from sources in at least one-of said domains to hardcopy documents in said hardcopy domain in accordance with a transform having known attributes, including system attributes which are not explicitly defined by said human readable information; the improvement comprising means within said rendering means for printing a machine readable encoded description of at least one of the known system attributes, including system attributes which are not explicitly defined by said human readable information of said transform on said hardcopy documents along with said human readable information, such that at least one of said system attributes of said transform is stored on said hardcopy documents for retrieval when any of said hardcopy documents is transformed from said hardcopy domain to said electronic domain.