Patent ID: 8797562

Claim:
A print controller for a production printing system, the print controller comprising: a job storage system operable to receive print jobs from at least one host system, and to store the print jobs; a print data path from the job storage system to at least one print engine of the printing system, the print data path includes at least one component operable to process the print jobs to generate sheetside images based on print settings for the printing system for marking by the at least one print engine to a print media; and a redrive system operable to detect a redrive event during printing of one of the print jobs, wherein the redrive event comprises a change to print settings for the printing system that alters sheetside images for print jobs, to identify the one print job in the print data path that was interrupted by the redrive event, to identify a target page of the identified print job that is being marked to the print media upon detection of the redrive event, to purge sheetside images for the identified print job from the print data path, and to reschedule the identified print job for processing in the print data path so that the next sheetside image generated for marking includes the target page of the identified print job.