Patent ID: 7149001

Claim:
A method of processing an image comprising: (a) sensing said image from an original document wherein said image includes all of said document; (b) modifying said image by a first process to compensate for non-uniformities of sensing said image; (c) modifying said image by a second process based upon the image itself; (d) creating a print ready data stream as a result of the modifications of step (b) and (c); (e) providing a print ready data stream of said image to a third process; (f) modifying said image of said print ready data stream by said third process, where less than all of said image is stored by said third process in memory at any single point in time, wherein said third process has insufficient memory to store all of said image at any single point in time, including at least one of: (i) horizontally cloning at least a portion of said image of said print ready data stream; (ii) vertically cloning at least a portion of said image of said print ready data stream; (g) providing said modified image as a result of step (f) to an output device.