Partitioning of print jobs for raster image processing

摘要

Various systems and methods for raster image processing employing partitioning of print jobs are described herein. In one representative embodiment, a method is provided that comprises the steps of determining (509) a page count for a print job (103). The method also includes the steps of assigning (116) each of the partitions of the print job (103) to one of a number of raster image processing (RIP) engines (109) for raster image processing, and, re-aggregating (709) a number of raster image processed partitions (116) from the RIP engines (109) into a raster image processed output file (716). Each of the raster image processed partitions is generated by raster image processing a corresponding one of the partitions.