Patent ID: 6919967

Claim:
An apparatus for printing pages of a print job, comprising: a page analyzer operative to identify static page aspects and variable page aspects from page data within a print job; a converting apparatus communicating with the page analyzer and operative to convert the static page aspects into static page layout objects and the variable page aspects into variable print data; an identifying apparatus communicating with the converting apparatus and operative to identify the static page layout objects in the manner allowing for an optimized form to be created, and to allow for appropriate merging with the variable print data; an optimizer apparatus communicating with the identifying apparatus and operative to convert the static page layout objects to an optimized form, wherein optimization level to create the optimized form is based on intended usage of the static page layout objects by a user; a storage apparatus communicating with the optimizer apparatus and operative to store at least one instantiation of the static page layout objects in the optimized form; and a merging apparatus communicating with the storing apparatus and operative to merge the static page layout objects with the variable print data to create merged print data.