Patent ID: 8610952
Filing Date: 2013-12-17
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A printing control device capable of: receiving designation of a printing medium; adjusting a setting of a printing environment of a printing apparatus based on a printing result of a first test pattern, which is for determining whether or not the setting is appropriate, by causing at least a printing apparatus to print the first test pattern on the designated printing medium; generating a color conversion table for the designated printing medium by determining an ink amount, which is for reproducing a color value indicated by a grid point of a device-independent color coordinate system, through ink amount optimization using an objective function, which is for rating picture quality obtained when an ink is adhered onto a basic printing medium different from the designated printing medium, after the adjusting of the setting, and by defining a correspondence relationship between a grid point of a predetermined input color coordinate system and ink amounts into which the determined ink amounts are converted on the basis of a conversion relationship between an ink color development characteristic of the basic printing medium and an ink color development characteristic of the designated printing medium; and generating a device profile, which defines characteristics of the printing apparatus, on the basis of a colorimetric value of a second test pattern, by performing color conversion on data, which represents the second test pattern, through the generated color conversion table, and by causing the printing apparatus to print the second test pattern on the designated printing medium on the basis of the color-converted data, wherein when receiving a prescribed low rating on the printing which is performed on the designated printing medium by the printing apparatus through printing control processing including the color conversion based on the generated device profile, in accordance with contents of the rating, the printing control device performs at least one of the adjusting of the setting, the generating of the color conversion table, and the generating of the device profile.