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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 21, 2014
Filed:
Nov. 24, 2009
Applicant:
R. Victor Klassen, Webster, NY (US);
Inventor:
R. Victor Klassen, Webster, NY (US);
Assignee:
Xerox Corporation, Norwalk, CT (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/12 (2006.01); H04N 1/00 (2006.01); G06K 15/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/1208 (2013.01); G06F 3/1288 (2013.01); G06F 3/124 (2013.01); G06F 3/1252 (2013.01); G06F 3/1281 (2013.01); G06F 3/1247 (2013.01); G06F 3/1213 (2013.01); G06F 3/1215 (2013.01); G06F 3/1241 (2013.01);
Abstract
Disclosed are methods and apparatus for operating a page parallel RIP printing system including a plurality of image marking engines (IMEs). According to an exemplary method, a print job is split into a plurality of job chunks, each job chunk grouped by its destination IME; and the job chunks are processed into a printer ready format by a plurality of RIP nodes associated with the job chunk group's respective destination IME.