Patent ID: 8736906
Filing Date: 2014-05-27
Classification: G06F,G06K

Abstract:
1. A method for processing a print job in a printing platform, comprising: a) analyzing printer description language (PDL) image data for a print job at a parser module; b) determining a raster image processor (RIP) orientation for each page of the print job at a controller module based at least in part on the analysis of the PDL image data, the RIP orientation being selected from a landscape orientation and a portrait orientation; and c) processing the PDL image data for each page of the print job in the determined RIP orientation at a RIP module to form raster image data for each page and storing the raster image data for each corresponding page of the print job in the determined RIP orientation; wherein the determined RIP orientation for each page of the print job varies between the landscape orientation and the portrait orientation based at least in part on the PDL image data for content of the corresponding page to reduce RIP time for the print job.