Patent ID: 8339653

Claim:
A method, in a printing system, for rendering a print job, said method comprising: receiving a graphic list comprising a first plurality of graphic-list elements; from said first plurality of graphic-list elements, determining a second plurality of graphic-list elements, wherein said second plurality of graphic-list elements comprises all graphic-list elements in said first plurality of graphic-list elements that, when rendered, do not overlap and are not overlapped by any other rendered graphic-list element in said first plurality of graphic-list elements; associating said second plurality of graphic-list elements with a first partition; from a third plurality of graphic-list elements comprising all graphic-list elements in said first plurality of graphic-list elements not in said second plurality of graphic-list elements, determining a fourth plurality of graphic-list elements that, when rendered, does not overlap with any other rendered graphic-list element in said third plurality of graphic-list elements; and associating said graphic-list elements in said fourth plurality of graphic-list elements with a second partition.