Patent ID: 7990577

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving at a printer at least one preRiP command identifying a presentation object to be included in a print job and presentation parameters associated with the object; in response to the at least one preRIP command, rasterizing the presentation object according to the presentation parameters and storing the rasterized object in a cache accessible to the printer associating with each stored rasterized object an object label identifying the presentation object and a parameter label identifying the parameters used in rasterizing the object; receiving at the printer print data specifying at least one presentation object and associated presentation parameters for inclusion in the print job; and in response to said print data, and searching the cache for the rasterized object with the object label and the parameter label matching the object and parameters specified by the print data; and if a matching rasterized object is found, including said rasterized object in a printed output of the print data, else if no matching rasterized object is found, rasterizing the object according to the specified parameters and including the result in the printed output of the print data.