Methods disclosed facilitate the scheduling of print jobs. In some embodiments, the retrieval of remote files that are targets of print requests can be deferred. Print requests may be specified using JDF and/or JMF. A print queue holds entries corresponding to the remote target files and each queue entry is also associated with location information for its corresponding remote target file. When the queue entry is processed the location information associated with the queue entry is used to retrieve the remote target file for printing.