A method and apparatus for permitting a user to simulate a fleet of highlight color rendering devices utilizing a single full-color rendering device. A list of available colors can be established, defined and edited by a user in association with at least one rendering device among a plurality of rendering devices of a rendering system that renders documents in response to processing of an imaging data stream. One or more rendering queues among a plurality of rendering queues can then be modified to include default color that can be queried and obtained as needed by the rendering system. A particular command can then be added to the imaging data stream, which when identified in a particular rendering job processed by the rendering system, automatically produces rendered output with the default color of the rendering queue to which the job is transmitted.