Method and apparatus for processing print job in printing platform for determining rotation

US8736906B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Xerox Corporation · US

Inventors

• Francis K. Tse · Rochester, US
• Peter Charles Rapley · Portland, US
• David Russel Sponable · Salem, US
• Jason Slack · Clinton, US
• David Rivshin · Rochester, US
• Lonnie A. LaFave · Sherwood, US
• Steve Beers · Macedon, US
• James B. Campbell · Beaverton, US
• Fritz Francis Ebner · Pittsford, US
• Scott Charles Warner · Ontario, US
• Timothy M. Hunter · Webster, US
• Lee D. Roche · Pittsford, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 27, 2011
• Grant date: May 27, 2014
• Expiry date: Mar 12, 2032

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06F3/1279
• WIPO field: Computer technology
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A method for processing a print job includes: a) analyzing printer description language (PDL) image data for a print job; b) determining a raster image processor (RIP) orientation for the print job based at least in part on the analysis of the PDL image data, the RIP orientation being selected from a landscape orientation and a portrait orientation; and c) processing the PDL image data for each page of the print job to form raster image data for each page in the RIP orientation and storing the raster image data in the RIP orientation. A printing platform associated with the method includes a parser module, a controller module, a storage device, and a RIP module.