Patent ID: 7221465
Filing Date: 2007-05-22
Classification: G06F,H04N

Abstract:
1. A printer control device which controls multiple printers connected to a network circuit, said printer control device comprising: a detector for detecting a problem in any of the printers; a selection controller for selecting, when a problem is detected by the detector, another normally functioning printer to substitute for the printer in which the problem is detected by said detector; and a substitution controller for correcting print data expressed in a device dependent color system, that was to have been printed out by the printer in which the problem is detected by said detector, based on a color information of the printer in which the problem is detected by the detector and a color information of the selected substitute printer, to ensure that image quality of the images printed by the selected substitute printer is the same as that of the images printed by the printer in which the problem is detected, and for outputting the corrected print data expressed in the device dependent color system to the selected substitute printer, the color information of the printer in which the problem is detected and the selected substitute printer each includes color conversion information for the respective printer between the device dependent color system and a device independent color space.