Method for managing print media

Devices that are configured to perform a task for printing image data on an image receiving medium, comprise a media list that contains entries for various media with attributes that relate to properties of the media that are independent of any application of the media in a print engine and attributes that relate to parameters for applying the media in a specific print engine. A method is provided to synchronise media lists of several devices in a general architecture of devices by suppleting a media list of a first device with entries from a media list of a second device even if the media associated with an entry is not applicable in the first device. This has the advantage that entries from the media list of the second device may be passed to a third device without the second and third device being connected to a network at the same time. Entries from media lists are considered to be associated with the same media if the identification attributes, which may be more than one attribute, are equal. In that case the additional attributes of the entry are supplemented according to merging rules that depend on the kind of attributes.