Method and Apparatus For Print Job With Reduced Memory Footprint Size
AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorsAritra Bandyopadhyay, David Ward
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Abstract
A method is described that includes applying a job ticket to a series of pages to produce a next sheet of document to be printed. The method further includes comparing substantive content of the sheet to respective substantive sheet content for a group of one or more previously generated sheets of the document that each contain the respective sheet content. The method further includes referencing the sheet to the group because the substantive content matched the respective substantive sheet content.
Claims20
A non-transitory machine readable storage medium containing stored program code that when processed by a processor of a printer causes a method to be performed, comprising:
- applying one or more properties included in a Job Definition Format (JDF) job ticket to a series of pages to produce a next sheet of document to be printed;
- comparing substantive content of the sheet to respective substantive sheet content for a group of one or more previously generated sheets of the document that each contain the respective sheet content;
- and,
- referencing the sheet to the group because the substantive content matched the respective substantive sheet content.
A printer having a processor and non-transitory machine readable storage medium, the machine readable medium having stored program code that when processed by the processor cause the printer to perform a method, comprising:
- applying one or more properties included in a Job Definition Format (JDF) job ticket to a series of pages to produce a next sheet of document to be printed;
- comparing substantive content of the sheet to respective substantive sheet content for a group of one or more previously generated sheets of the document that each contain the respective sheet content;
- and,
- referencing the sheet to the group because the substantive content matched the respective substantive sheet content.
A method, comprising:
- applying one or more properties included in a Job Definition Format (JDF) job ticket to a series of pages to produce a next sheet of document to be printed;
- comparing substantive content of the sheet to respective substantive sheet content for a group of one or more previously generated sheets of the document that each contain the respective sheet content;
- and,
- referencing the sheet to the group because the substantive content matched the respective substantive sheet content.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.