Printing system and method using multiple processors

摘要

A processing unit (11) for a printer system. The processing unit (11) is comprised of a master processor (21) and multiple parallel processors (22). The master processor (21) builds the display list from a page description program or from some other graphics programming. It partitions the display list into sublists and distributes the sublists to the parallel processors (22). The parallel processors (22) interpret the sublists, thereby rendering the image as bitmapped data.