be properly finished in its entirety even in an unassisted manner in a production environment that supports end to end production automation thus embodiments herein include a method system computer program and or service that receives a user request 100 through a graphic user interface for a document job fig1 the document job 100 includes printing characteristics for creating markings on a sheet of media and an indication to perform a fold operation for folding the sheet of media into a folded piece in items 102 106 the embodiments herein which can be termed the u201c basic definition step u201d allow the user to specify parameters for the fold operation this method could apply even when folding machines are not used this method communicates a fold that a human or a machine can interpret unambiguously of course if a machine is used the entire process can occur without human intervention but even without a machine the method permits a human being to interpret the folding intent unambiguously one parameter that is defined in item 102 is which page u201c page 1 u201d or u201c page 2 u201d of the document contains the matter that will comprise the outside of the folded piece the embodiments herein acquire user inputs to identify an outside page designation of the folded piece the u201c outside page designation u201d has the user identify which side of the sheet of media contains markings that will appear on the exterior of the folded piece after the sheet of media is folded into the folded piece in the case of folds that result in parts of both pages on the outside of the folded piece the user can be asked to specify which page is to be considered the u201c outside u201d page page 1 in item 104.