Patent ID: 8184304

Claim:
A system for printing a page on a substrate, wherein the page is designated by a page description language representation, wherein the system comprises: a first print unit for printing a color on a first portion of the substrate; a second print unit for printing the color on a second portion of the substrate wherein the first and second portions of the substrate do not substantially overlap; a first RIP that determines a first portion of the page description language representation to rasterize and rasterizes the first portion of the page description language representation to generate a first raster image representation, wherein the first raster image representation is used by the first print unit to print a first portion of the page on the first portion of the substrate; and a second RIP that determines a second portion of the page description language representation different than the first portion of the page description language representation and rasterizes the second portion of the page description language representation to generate a second raster image representation, wherein the second raster image representation is used by the second print unit to print a second portion of the page on the second portion of the substrate.