Patent ID: 7532345

Claim:
A system comprising: a central processor; a video processor for providing video to a video display; print memory accessible to the central processor and video processor; an interface for providing data communications between the printer driver and the video processor; a printer driver executable by the processor and operable to receive a first data set comprising data in a first format, the first data set representing an image that is to be printed; and where the printer driver is operable to produce a second data set in a second format from the first data set, where the printer driver is operable to divide the first data set into multiple portions, and to provide the video processor with the second data set in multiple portions corresponding to the multiple portions of the first data set; and where the video processor is operable to process each of the multiple portions of the second data set to generate a third data set in a third data format to an assembler of the printer driver for assembly and storage in the print memory as print data.