Patent ID: 7511854
Filing Date: 2009-03-31
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. An image processing device comprising: a storage unit that stores color information of spot colors different from process colors; a read-out unit that reads out the color information from the storage unit when color replacement is instructed for at least one of color plates of the process colors, and a spot color is instructed as a replacement color; a color information generating unit that generates color information of an alternate color based on the color information of the spot color read out by the read-out unit when generation of the alternate color to the spot color is instructed; a color information converting unit that generates each of first and second color information, wherein the first color information is generated by converting the color information of the color plate for which color replacement is instructed into the color information of the spot color, the second color information is generated by converting the color information of the color plate for which the color replacement is instructed into the color information of the alternate color; and a color replacing unit that generates new color information based on each of the first and second color information generated by the color information converting unit.