Patent ID: 7038802
Filing Date: 2006-05-02
Classification: G06F,G06T

Abstract:
1. A networked imaging system, comprising: a first communications network; a second communications network, different than the first communications network; a first storage device interconnected to the first network; a second storage device interconnected to the second network; a first raster image processor interconnected to the first network and the second network, and configured to generate first image data representing a first image and to write the first image data to the first storage device via the first network, and to transmit via the second communications network a message indicative of the first image data having been written to the first storage device; a second raster image processor interconnected to the second network, and configured to generate second image data representing a second image and to transmit the second image data over the second network; a first print driver server interconnected to the first and the second networks, and configured to receive the second image data over the second network and to write the second image data to the second storage device via the second network and to transmit via the second communications network a message indicative of the second image data having been written to the second storage device and to read the first image data from the first storage device via the first network, and to generate first drive instructions corresponding to the written first image data; a second print driver server interconnected to the second network, and configured to read the second image data from the second storage device via the second network and to generate second drive instructions corresponding to the written second image data; a first image maker configured to generate a representation of the first image in accordance with the first drive instructions; and a second image maker configured to generate a representation of the second image in accordance with the second drive instructions.