File:RIP Data Flow.jpg

Summary
Applicable topics: electrophotographic printing, xerography, laser printer, photocopier

This is an example of how page description languages are converted into a raw binary raster image using a raster image processor.

Created by [mailto:dmahalko@gmail.com Dale Mahalko], using Microsoft PowerPoint at 200% size (since PowerPoint is not meant to be used as a drawing program but it's all I have available), then screenshotted and saved as a JPEG using Corel PhotoPaint.