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Parallel printing system

CA 2462225 C · Owner: Klassen, R. Victor · Inventors: Klassen, R. Victor

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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.

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  • Filed March 29, 2004 and granted January 15, 2013. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended March 29, 2024.
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FiledMarch 29, 2004
GrantedJanuary 15, 2013
Term endedMarch 29, 2024
Patent numberCA 2462225 C
Classification (IPC)G06F3/12

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