Patent ID: 8670149

Claim:
A method for enhancing performance in a printing system, comprising: receiving, at the printing system, a printer characterization file including executable instructions to determine a set of one or more printer characteristics of the printing system; executing the instructions on a processor of the printing system so as to determine said one or more printer characteristics; providing, as an output, said one or more printer characteristics; providing the output to a typesetter; and generating a pre-rasterized print job at the typesetter, said generating a pre-rasterized print job including: receiving the set of printer characteristics; receiving data defining one or more objects to be incorporated in a print job; rasterizing, based at least in part on the set of printer characteristics, a first object of the one or more objects to generate a first pre-rasterized object; and generating the pre-rasterized print job, in a programmed file format, said print job including said first pre-rasterized object and a set of print layout instructions.