System and method for adaptively compressing data having noisy images using lossless compression

A method for rendering image data using adaptive lossless compression, comprising:

• (a) receiving pixels of image data and meta data indicating a type of object that generated the pixels of image data, the pixels of image data includes a first byte having most significant bits of image data and a second byte having least significant bits of image data;
• (b) electronically truncating, for each pixel of image data in the received pixels of image data, a pixel of image data by setting a number of bits in the second byte of the pixel of image data to zero so that a number of non-set bits in the truncated pixel of image data equal a number of bits usable by a print engine;
• (c) electronically determining, for each truncated pixel of image data in the received pixels of image data, if the meta data associated with a truncated pixel of image data is associated with a noisy image;
• (d) electronically setting, for each truncated pixel of image data in the received pixels of image data, a predetermined number of low bits of a truncated pixel of image data to zero when it is determined that the meta data associated with the truncated pixel of image data is associated with a noisy image to create a modified truncated pixel of image data;
• (e) losslessly compressing the modified truncated pixels of image data to create compressed image data;
• (f) losslessly compressing, when it is determined that the meta data associated with a truncated pixel of image data is not associated with a noisy image, the truncated pixel of image data not associated with a noisy image to create compressed image data;
• (g) decompressing the compressed image data to create uncompressed image data;
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• (h) rendering, using the print engine, the uncompressed image data.