Patent ID: 8708437

Claim:
A multicolor print system for printing a multi-color image on a substrate comprising: a printable substrate; an array of ink jet printing engines for printing a color component of said multi-color image; a rotary printing station for printing a color component of said multi-color; a conveyor for conveying the printable substrate with respect to the ink jet print engines and the rotary printing station; said rotary printing station being disposed upstream of the array ink jet print engines; further comprising a server for providing instructions to the ink jet print engines; wherein each print engine extracts from the server instructions specific to the respective ink jet printing engine, and wherein the ink jet print engine specific set of instructions are cascaded downstream across the array of ink let print engines; and wherein the server comprises a digital image server further comprising a router, each said ink jet print engine comprise an ink bat being connected to the router and to each other said ink bat and to the digital image server, whereby the image is loaded into the respective ink bat from the digital image server, wherein the image is streamed in slices so that a slice of each set of print engine specific set of instructions provides for bat hopping printing of the image on the substrate, whereby the ink jet print engines and printing stations print respective color components for printing a multi-color image on the substrate.