Patent ID: 7925104

Claim:
A method for decompressing a job in a document management system, the job including compressed image data, the compressed image data being encoded using a plurality of resolution levels, each resolution level having a corresponding set of quality layers, comprising: buffering, using a memory buffer, the compressed image data; determining a number of resolution levels of the compressed print related data to be decompressed; selecting, using a processor, a number of quality layers of the compressed print related data to be decompressed, the selection of the number of quality layers of the compressed print related data to be decompressed, being based upon the determined number of resolution levels of the compressed print related data to be decompressed, the number of quality layers to be decompressed for each resolution level being equal, the number of selected quality layers being less than a number of quality layers in the set of quality layers; and decompressing the compressed image data based upon the selected number of quality layers and the determined number of resolution levels.