Patent ID: 8610728
Filing Date: 2013-12-17
Classification: G06K

Abstract:
1. A rendering device comprising: a memory; a plurality of rendering processors that perform pre-printing rendering processing on pages of document data in accordance with pre-printing rendering instructions for the pages, and obtain rendered pre-printing pages based on results of the pre-printing rendering processing, wherein each of the plurality of rendering processors stores the pre-printing rendering instructions and rendered pre-printing pages in association with each other in the memory, and reads rendered results associated with pre-printing rendering instructions from the memory and uses the rendered results for a subsequent page without performing pre-printing rendering processing on the subsequent page in accordance with the pre-printing rendering instructions to obtain the rendered results for the subsequent pages when the rendered results associated with the pre-printing rendering instructions for rendering are stored in the memory; and a rendering controller that assigns a pre-printing rendering instruction for a page to one of the plurality of rendering processors in accordance with a given page print setting instruction and controls the assigned one of the rendering processors to perform the pre-printing rendering processing, wherein when the page print setting instruction is a double-sided output instruction, the rendering controller assigns a pre-printing rendering instruction for an odd numbered page to a corresponding one of the plurality of rendering processors and assigns a pre-printing rendering instruction for an even number page to a different one of the plurality of rendering processors.