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Colorage, Inc.

Edward S Gavrin

Michael Speciner

Carl Mikkelsen

Carl M Mikkelsen

Fixed and variable content is merged to produce personalized documents using a raster image processor that, for each page to be printed, initializes a frame buffer according to fixed content specified for the page. The fixed content may be specified in initialization information that is placed at the beginning of the stream of variable content to be processed or could be specified in some other manner. Such information may be specified through user input to a printer driver that processes documents to be printed from arbitrary applications into page descriptions used by the raster image processor. The specified fixed content may be preprocessed and stored in memory accessible to the raster image processor. The variable content then may be added to the frame buffer without the need to specify a region in which it should be placed.

Image process system and process using personalization techniques

A rasterizer which includes a transform analyzer and compiler which generates a transform program for only one scan line of an output image where a given transform specification which defines only orthogonal rotations, and possibly mirroring and scaling. The transform program is interpreted by a transform execution engine, along with the input image data, to produce an output raster image, by repetitively applying the transform program to the input image data for successive scan lines of the output raster image.

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Weston, MA, United States of America

Edward S Gavrin