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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 08, 1997
Filed:
May. 20, 1994
Loren Schoenzeit, Orono, MN (US);
Philip Lodwick, Richfield, MN (US);
Richard A Keeney, Eagan, MN (US);
William H Glass, Edina, MN (US);
Management Graphics, Inc., Minneapolis, MN (US);
Abstract
Apparatus is provided for managing a plurality of output devices to generate images from graphic image files. Each of the output devices is associated with a respective control system which includes a first queue for storing the graphic image files. The graphic image files are rasterized to develop raster image data that is stored in a second queue. A job controller selects images represented by data in the graphic image files stored in the first queue for rasterizing on a real time basis. The job controller is responsive to parameters of the graphic image files, the second queue, and the associated output device to manage the flow of image data from the first queue to a raster image processor (RIP) and from the RIP to the output device via said second queue.