Printer with coordinated print data buffers

摘要

A printer includes a print controller that operates in accordance with a software product stored in a memory device of the printer. The software product includes instructions for the print controller to store a first page of print data in a first data buffer while printing a page according to a second page of print data pre-stored in a second data buffer. In one embodiment the software product includes instructions to decompress edge-runlength encoded print data.