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2005-03-22

2009-08-25

Zimmerman, Mark K (Department: 2625)

Facsimile and static presentation processing

Static presentation processing

Communication

C358S001100, C358S001130

Reexamination Certificate

active

07580146

ABSTRACT:
A hierarchical architecture for a network printing system having a plurality of electronic printers and printing systems is provided. The hierarchical architecture decomposes each electronic printer and printing system's Digital Front End (DFE) and print engine into a hierarchical set of networked printer components communicating via a many-to-many network protocol. Print data is routed from component-to-component based on the receiving component's self-advertised function and availability. Adding duplicate printer components to the network environment scales or increases the reliability and performance of the network environment. A sufficiently large set of inexpensive printer components may be configured to achieve any desired level of reliability and performance through redundancy. Additionally, a network of DFE printer components (input and output spoolers, and RIP processors) can control multiple print engine components, improving the prior art 1:1 ratio between print engine components and DFE components.

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