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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 03, 2013
Filed:
Jul. 14, 2011
Charles D. Johnson, Boulder, CO (US);
David Ward, Broomfield, CO (US);
Yung-chung Su, Superior, CO (US);
Lisa A. Morgan, Blackfoot, ID (US);
Charles D. Johnson, Boulder, CO (US);
David Ward, Broomfield, CO (US);
Yung-Chung Su, Superior, CO (US);
Lisa A. Morgan, Blackfoot, ID (US);
Ricoh Company, Ltd, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Methods and systems herein provide for recovering from an out of storage condition at a rip spool for storing raster data. In one embodiment, a print controller receives a command to print multiple copies of a print job. The print controller buffers for rasterization multiple copies of print data for the print job, and determines if a rip spool has storage space available to store a complete rasterized version of the print job. If the rip spool does not have storage space available, then the print controller performs a rasterization process on the multiple copies of the print data for the print job, and provides multiple rasterized copies of the print job to a print engine. If the rip spool has storage space available, then the print controller performs a rasterization process on one copy of the print job and discards additional buffered copies of the print data.