Image rotation to optimize rip and print performance time

US9602694B2 · 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: Mar 21, 2017
• Expiry date: Mar 5, 2033

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H04N1/32571
• WIPO field: Audio-visual technology
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A method for processing a print job includes: a) processing printer description language (PDL) image data for a select page of a print job to form raster image data for the select page, processing of the PDL image data and storing the raster image data in a RIP orientation; b) processing the raster image data for the select page to form bitmap image data for the select page, transforming the raster image data from the RIP orientation to a print orientation and storing the bitmap image data in the print orientation; and c) printing the bitmap image data arranged in the print orientation on a target substrate page to form a printed substrate page for the select page of the print job. A printing platform associated with the method includes a storage device, a RIP module, a rotator module, and a print engine.