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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 16, 2005
Filed:
Sep. 03, 2003
Robert D. Christiansen, Boise, ID (US);
Ouri Poupko, Nes-ziona, IL;
Scott C. Clouthier, Boise, ID (US);
Amir Gaash, Rehovot, IL;
Robert D. Christiansen, Boise, ID (US);
Ouri Poupko, Nes-ziona, IL;
Scott C. Clouthier, Boise, ID (US);
Amir Gaash, Rehovot, IL;
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
Digital printing technologies often rely on raster image processors (RIPs or RIP engines) to convert vector image data to raster, or bit-map, data, which allows a printer to render the image as a pattern of dots or pixels. One problem that the present inventors recognized with conventional RIPs is that they have limited communications capabilities that can in some circumstances reduce their effective processing speed. Accordingly, at least some embodiments of the present invention allow controlling a RIP engine using two or more different RIP control entities.