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Method and apparatus for distributing pages to individual print engines in a multiple print engine

  • US 6,850,335 B1
  • Filed: 01/11/1999
  • Issued: 02/01/2005
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/16/1996
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A multiple print engine for printing one or more copies of a multiple page document input as a single multiple page print job, comprising:

  • a plurality of physical print engines, each having an input for rasterized page data and an output bin for receiving printed output pages; and

    a job distributor having a single RIP engine for receiving said multiple page document and generating therefrom rasterized page data and providing said rasterized page data organized for parallel distribution by said job distributor to said inputs of selected different ones of said plurality of physical print engines according to print job parameters associated with and recovered from said rasterized page data.

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