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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 06, 2003
Filed:
Jan. 26, 2001
Margaret Motamed, Foster City, CA (US);
Alon Segal, San Francisco, CA (US);
Chew Yan Kong, Mountain View, CA (US);
Ravindranath Gunturu, Newark, CA (US);
Ghilad Dziesietnik, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Electronics for Imaging, Inc., Foster City, CA (US);
Abstract
A multiple raster image processor (RIP) system is described that enables faster system performance over multiple processors, and includes a zero RIP feature consisting of a language interpreter sub-RIP that interprets a print instruction file but does not process the graphics rendering steps or the post-language processing operators. A skip RIP interprets selected pages in a way that skips all or most of the processing for that page. Pages to be skipped are scheduled for a different processor, thereby saving processing time and enabling the provision of a multiple processor RIP.