Robust recovery of a page parallel rip system

A fault tolerant page parallel RIP system having a plurality of distributed nodes, the system comprising:

• at least one splitter node, performing:
• receiving a job file to be processed;
• splitting said job file into at least one original chunk;
• storing information about said original chunk sufficient to regenerate said original chunk in the event of a fault condition having occurred on said page parallel RIP system;
• and
• sending said original chunk to a destination RIP node;
• and
• at least one destination RIP node, performing:
• RIP'ing said original chunk into at least one page in print-ready form;
• and
• transferring said print-ready page to an output subsystem.

A method for robust recovery of a page parallel RIP system, the method comprising:

• a page parallel RIP system receiving a job file to be processed, said RIP system comprising at least a plurality of RIP nodes, a supervisor, and a splitter;
• said splitter receiving a location of said job file and splitting said job file into at least one original chunk;
• storing information about said original chunk sufficient to regenerate said original chunk in the event of a fault condition on said page parallel RIP system;
• said splitter sending said original chunk to a destination RIP node;
• said destination RIP node RIP'ing said original chunk into at least one page in print-ready form;
• and
• transferring said at least one page in print-ready form to an output subsystem.