A printing system includes first and second communicatively linked
printers, each including a print engine and a processor which controls
the operation of the respective print engine. A scanner, associated with
the first printer, scans a hardcopy document and generates image data
therefrom. The scanner is for communicating the image data to the first
printer. A graphical user interface is provided through which user
selections are communicated to at least one of the scanner and the first
printer. The first processor has a first mode of operation in which a
print job derived from the image data is printed on the first print
engine and a second mode of operation in which a print job is exported to
the second printer for printing. At least one of the first and second
modes of operation is invoked at least in part by user interaction with
the graphical user interface.