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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 18, 2000
Filed:
Sep. 15, 1997
Deborah Elisabeth Neuhard, Longmont, CO (US);
Robert Curt Nielsen, Longmont, CO (US);
Dwight Ross Palmer, Longmont, CO (US);
Luana Vigil, Longmont, CO (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
The present invention discloses a system for organizing files associated with a job ticket, including raster image process (RIP) files. The files and job ticket are in a storage device attached to a computer system. The job ticket includes information on print files included in a print job, print file location information indicating a location of the print files in the storage device, and RIP file location information indicating a location of the RIP version of a print file in the storage device. The print files include data representing graphical images and the RIP version is generated from the print file. When the job ticket is submitted for printing, a RIP version is submitted in lieu of the print file if the RIP version was modified after the print file was modified. Any generated RIP versions may be saved in the storage device with their location indicated in the RIP file location information.