Patent ID: 8593668

Claim:
A printing system comprising: a printer; a plurality of processing nodes, each processing node being disposed for processing a job file associated with a print job into a printer dependent format; wherein the print job includes a non-splittable PDL file; wherein the processing nodes each begin processing the print job when a processing manager starts sending the job file to the processing nodes whereby waiting for splitting of the print job into subparts of the print job before RIP processing starts is obviated; a replicator component is attached to the job file and replicates said entire print job wherein said job file includes multiple instances of a duplicate raster image processing (RIP); said job file includes instructions to execute said multiple instances of said same RIP; each RIP instance proposes to a collector component that said RIP image a page for printing; said collector grants permission to image said page to a first RIP proposal observed to said collector and then rejects the duplicate said page proposals from other RIP components; and, wherein each of the RIPs interprets the entire PDL file and only images a subset of the pages to be printed.