22. A method of controlling automated printing of electronic documents implemented at least in part on a computing system, comprising: identifying a plurality of electronic files, each electronic file having a unique file name comprising a plurality of fields, each field comprising at least one alpha-numeric character and separated from an adjacent field by a field separation character; displaying the file name for each of the plurality of electronic files; receiving an input identifying the character separator employed to delineate between the plurality of fields in each of the file names of the plurality of electronic files; for each of the plurality of electronic files, parsing the file name to identify each of the plurality of fields, identifying the at least one alpha-numeric character comprised in each of the plurality of fields, and displaying the alpha-numeric strings comprised in each field; receiving an input identifying a first printing parameter to be controlled by the value of the at least one alpha-numeric character comprised in a first field of each file name; receiving an input identifying a second printing parameter to be controlled by the value of the alpha-numeric character string assigned to a second field; and generating instructions for printing the plurality of files, wherein for each of the plurality of files, the value of the at least one alpha-numeric character in the first field is used to determine instructions relating to the first printing parameter and the value of the at least one alpha-numeric character in the second field is used to determine instructions relating to the second printing parameter.
22. A method of controlling automated printing of electronic documents implemented at least in part on a computing system, comprising: identifying a plurality of electronic files, each electronic file having a unique file name comprising a plurality of fields, each field comprising at least one alpha-numeric character and separated from an adjacent field by a field separation character; displaying the file name for each of the plurality of electronic files; receiving an input identifying the character separator employed to delineate between the plurality of fields in each of the file names of the plurality of electronic files; for each of the plurality of electronic files, parsing the file name to identify each of the plurality of fields, identifying the at least one alpha-numeric character comprised in each of the plurality of fields, and displaying the alpha-numeric strings comprised in each field; receiving an input identifying a first printing parameter to be controlled by the value of the at least one alpha-numeric character comprised in a first field of each file name; receiving an input identifying a second printing parameter to be controlled by the value of the alpha-numeric character string assigned to a second field; and generating instructions for printing the plurality of files, wherein for each of the plurality of files, the value of the at least one alpha-numeric character in the first field is used to determine instructions relating to the first printing parameter and the value of the at least one alpha-numeric character in the second field is used to determine instructions relating to the second printing parameter. 24. The method of claim 22 , wherein receiving an input identifying a first printing parameter to be determined by the value of the alpha-numeric character comprised in a first field comprises receiving an input identifying one of the following to be determined by the value of the alphanumeric character: print sequence of a file in the plurality of files; media type on which the file will be printed; use of simplex printing; use of duplex printing; number of copies to be made of the file; and print finishing options to be used in printing the file.