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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 01, 2008
Filed:
Mar. 21, 2003
Robert Douglas Christiansen, Boise, ID (US);
Robert Douglas Christiansen, Boise, ID (US);
Hewlett-Packard Develepment Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
In a raster image processing (RIP'ing) pipeline, the invention recovers a failed raster image process (RIP) partition. In one aspect, multiple partitions of a print job are distributed across multiple RIP engines. One or more particular partitions of the multiple partitions are determined to have failed to RIP. Other ones of the multiple partitions that are not the one or more failed partitions were successfully raster image processed (RIP'd) into a first set of data. Zero (0) or more portions of erroneous print data portions of the one or more particular portions are automatically identified. If no portions of the one or more particular portions are determined to be erroneous, a second set of RIP'd data corresponding to the one or more particular portions is automatically generated. The first and second sets of RIP'd data are aggregated into an output file for printing.