Patent ID: 7352481

Claim:
In a raster image processing (RIP'ing) pipeline, a method for recovery of a failed raster image process (RIP) partition, the method comprising: distributing multiple partitions of a print job across multiple RIP engines for RIP'ing; determining that one or more particular partitions of the multiple partitions has failed to RIP, other ones of the multiple partitions that are not the one or more particular partitions having a first set of raster image processed (RTP'd) data; automatically identifying zero (0) or more portions of erroneous print data portions within the one or more particular partitions; if one (1) or more portions of erroneous print data are automatically identified: recovering edited print data corresponding to the one or more erroneous portions; correcting the erroneous partitions manually by an administrative entity; generating a second set of RIP'd data corresponding to the edited print data; merging second set of RIP'd data into the first set without re-RIP'ing the other ones of the multiple partitions; and aggregating the first and second sets of RIP'd data into an output file for printing; and if no portions within the one or more particular partitions are erroneous: automatically generating a second set of RIP'd data corresponding to the one or more particular partitions; and aggregating the first and second sets of RIP'd data into an output file for printing, wherein the one (1) or more erroneous portions are each of a configurable number of pages of print data.