Patent ID: 8199367
Filing Date: 2012-06-12
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A printing control device which designates a color material amount set, which is a combination of use amounts of plural color materials, to a printing apparatus when permitting the printing apparatus to perform printing by attaching the plural color materials to a print medium, the printing control device comprising: a target color value acquiring unit which acquires a target color value set formed by a plurality of constituent color values represented by a target under plural light sources; and a printing control unit which acquires a color material amount set corresponding to the acquired target color value set with reference to a lookup table, the lookup table defining a correspondence relation between a plurality of color material amount sets and a plurality of target color value sets, and which designates the acquired color material amount set to the printing apparatus to perform the printing, wherein the lookup table defines a correspondence relation between a particular color material amount set and a particular target color value set based on a degree of approximation between a plurality of constituent color values of the particular target color value set and the plurality of constituent color values reproduced on the print medium under the plural light sources when the particular color material amount set is designated to the printing apparatus to perform the printing.