Patent ID: 7847967
Filing Date: 2010-12-07
Classification: G06K

Abstract:
1. A system for partial brute force collation of a print job received from a, source device, said print job including N copies of an electronic document, said document having a document storage requirement to be stored in memory, said system comprising: (a) a printing device having ROPM capability and at least one memory having a memory storage capacity; (b) said printing device having document reception capability for receiving a portion of said document from said source device; (c) said at least one memory storing said portion of said document received from said source device; (d) said printing device having a memory printing mode for printing said portion of said document stored in said at least one memory; (e) said printing device having a brute force collation mode for printing any portion of said document not stored in said at least one memory; and (f) means for alternating said memory printing mode and said brute force collation mode for each of the N copies of the electronic document of the print job such that the resulting printed output is collated; (g) wherein said portion of said document stored in said at least one memory during said memory printing mode is used so that said portion of said document stored in said at least one memory is not resent to said printing device throughout said print job.