公开(公告)号：US20040196497A1

公开(公告)日：2004-10-07

申请号：US10606024

申请日：2003-06-25

Applicant: Xerox Corporation

Inventor： R. Victor Klassen ,  Jess R. Gentner

IPC: G06F009/38 ,  G06F015/00 ,  G06F003/12

CPC classification number: G06F3/1212 ,  G06F3/1206 ,  G06F3/124 ,  G06F3/1285

Abstract: A printing system comprised of a printer, a plurality of processing nodes, each processing node being disposed for processing a portion of a print job into a printer dependent format, and a processing manager for spooling the print job into selectively sized chunks and assigning the chunks to selected ones of the nodes for parallel processing of the chunks by the processing nodes into the printer dependent format. The chunks are selectively sized from at least one page to an entire size of the print job in accordance with predetermined splitting factors for enhancing printer printing efficiency. The operating of the printing system includes a method for parallel processing of a print job with a plurality of processing nodes into a printer-ready format for printing the print job, wherein the processing nodes communicate with a virtual disk transfer system and control usage thereof by monitoring available space in the virtual disk transfer system.

Abstract translation: 一种由打印机，多个处理节点组成的打印系统，每个处理节点被设置用于将打印作业的一部分处理成打印机相关格式;以及处理管理器，用于将打印作业卷绕成选定大小的块并分配块 到所选择的节点中，用于由处理节点将处理节点并行处理成打印机依赖格式。 根据用于提高打印机打印效率的预定分割因素，该块从打印作业的至少一页到整个尺寸选择性地大小。 打印系统的操作包括用于将具有多个处理节点的打印作业并行处理成用于打印作业的打印机就绪格式的方法，其中处理节点与虚拟盘传送系统通信并且通过 监控虚拟磁盘传输系统中的可用空间。