Reprocessing of page strips responsive to low memory condition

A non-transitory computer-readable data storage medium storing program code executable by a printing device to:

• successively render, compress, and store in a memory buffer a plurality of strips of a page until a low memory condition of the memory buffer occurs;
• responsive to occurrence of the low memory condition, decompress, process, compress and store in the memory buffer the strips that were already rendered when the low memory condition occurred;
• and after the occurrence of the low memory condition, render, process, compress, and store in the memory buffer the strips that were not already rendered when the low memory condition occurred;
• wherein the program code is executable by the printing device to further:
• responsive to a second occurrence of the low memory condition, decompress, progress again, compress, and store in the memory buffer the strips that were already rendered and processed when the low memory condition again occurred;
• and after the second occurrence of the low memory condition, render, process, process again, compress, and store in the memory buffer the strips that were not already rendered and processed when the low memory condition again occurred.

A printing device comprising:

• a print engine to print a page;
• a memory buffer to store a plurality of strips of the page in a compressed manner until the print engine is ready to print the page;
• and logic implemented at least in hardware to:
• process according to a rendering technique and compress the strips of the page before storing the strips in the memory buffer, until a low memory condition of the memory buffer occurs;
• responsive to occurrence of the low memory condition, decompress and process according to a memory utilization reduction technique, and compress the strips already stored in the memory buffer when the low memory condition occurred;
• and after the occurrence of the low memory condition, process according to the rendering technique and then according to the memory utilization reduction technique, compress, and store in the memory buffer the strips of the page that were not already stored in the memory buffer when the low memory condition occurred;
• wherein the logic is further to:
• responsive to a second occurrence of the low memory condition, decompress, process according to an additional memory utilization reduction technique, and compress the strips already stored in the memory buffer when the low memory condition occurred again;
• and after the second occurrence of the low memory condition, process according to the rendering technique, then according to the memory utilization reduction technique, and then according to the additional memory utilization reduction technique, compress, and store in the memory buffer the strips that were not already stored in the memory buffer when the low memory condition occurred again.