Patent ID: 7948653
Filing Date: 2011-05-24
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A printing colorimetric instruction method, comprising: receiving a designation for a colorimetry position on a predetermined image; instructing to print an image on a print medium on the basis of image data which represent the predetermined image; determining a position when a colorimetry section is caused to perform colorimetry on the predetermined image printed on the print medium on the basis of the designation; acquiring a colorimetry value of the colorimetry position of the designation by causing the colorimetry section to execute colorimetry on the basis of the position thus determined; acquiring a reference value for the color of the colorimetry position of the designation, and comparing the colorimetry value with the reference value, and judging whether the color of a printing result of the colorimetry position of the designation is normal on the basis of the comparison result; wherein, in cases where judging that the color of the printing result for the colorimetry position of the designation is not normal, instructing to print an image on the print medium on the basis of the image data once again after executing a instruction to restore operation on a print head used in the printing and/or correction processing to correct, in accordance with the comparison result, an ink amount discharged by the print head on the basis of the image data.