Patent ID: 11936832
Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A control method for an apparatus configured to control print data for executing printing by using a first color being a process color and a second color being a specific color different from the process color, comprising:
obtaining color information to be printed in the specific color out of color information included in the print data;
detecting a specific location to be printed in the specific color based on the obtained color information in an image;
performing first color conversion to subject the color information included in the print data to color conversion processing in accordance with a color conversion instruction; and
performing second color conversion on image data subjected to the color conversion processing in performing the first color conversion, in such a way as to turn color information corresponding to the specific location back to color information indicating the specific color before the color conversion processing is performed in performing the first color conversion, wherein
a printing unit configured to execute printing based on the print data executes the printing on the specific location by using the second color based on the color information indicating the specific color turned back in performing the second color conversion and executes the printing on a location other than the specific location by using the first color based on color information after the color conversion in performing the first color conversion.