Patent ID: 8085426

Claim:
A printer controller system comprising: bitmap buffers residing in a printer for storing bitmaps as uncompressed data, where the bitmaps are identified by a bitmap identifier and a sequence of allocation; a memory device configured to store the bitmaps as compressed data that is accessible for reprinting one or more of the bitmaps; a buffer manager configured to manage the sequence of allocation of the bitmap buffers to the bitmaps, where the buffer manager is configured to recall one of the bitmaps from the bitmap buffers according to the bitmap identifier associated with a requested bitmap, where the requested bitmap was previously printed corresponding to the sequence of allocation, and where the requested bitmap is concurrently saved in the bitmap buffers as the uncompressed data and in the memory device as the compressed data; and a marking engine configured to preferentially reprint the requested bitmap directly from the uncompressed data of the bitmap buffers and without accessing the compressed data of the memory device.