An ink amount upper limit setting apparatus that sets an ink amount upper limit for a plurality of inks to be used by an output device , the ink amount upper limit being an upper limit of the amount per unit area of the inks that the output device is permitted to discharge, the ink amount upper limit setting apparatus comprising: a target color designating section (U1) that accepts the designation of at least one target color for which the ink amount upper limit is to be set; a correspondence relationship defining section (U2) that defines a correspondence relationship between coordinate values in a predetermined color space and output values, on the basis of ink amount upper limit candidates, the output values indicating the used amounts of the respective inks, the ink amount upper limit candidates being candidates for the ink amount upper limit; a patch controller (U3) that converts surface color coordinate values into the output values on the basis of the correspondence relationship and causes the output device to form patches in accordance with the output values, the surface color coordinate values indicating colors of surfaces of a color reproduction region, the color reproduction region being a range of colors in the predetermined color space, the colors to be reproduced by the output device; a colorimetric value acquiring section (U4) that acquires colorimetric values of the formed patches, the colorimetric values indicating colors in the predetermined color space; and a color reproduction determination output section (U5) that outputs color reproduction determination information on the basis of a coordinate value of the target color in the predetermined color space and the colorimetric values, to enable a user to check the color reproduction determination information, the color reproduction determination information indicating whether the target color is contained in the color reproduction region for each of the ink amount upper limit candidates. a target color designating section (U1) that accepts the designation of at least one target color for which the ink amount upper limit is to be set; a correspondence relationship defining section (U2) that defines a correspondence relationship between coordinate values in a predetermined color space and output values, on the basis of ink amount upper limit candidates, the output values indicating the used amounts of the respective inks, the ink amount upper limit candidates being candidates for the ink amount upper limit; a patch controller (U3) that converts surface color coordinate values into the output values on the basis of the correspondence relationship and causes the output device to form patches in accordance with the output values, the surface color coordinate values indicating colors of surfaces of a color reproduction region, the color reproduction region being a range of colors in the predetermined color space, the colors to be reproduced by the output device; a colorimetric value acquiring section (U4) that acquires colorimetric values of the formed patches, the colorimetric values indicating colors in the predetermined color space; and a color reproduction determination output section (U5) that outputs color reproduction determination information on the basis of a coordinate value of the target color in the predetermined color space and the colorimetric values, to enable a user to check the color reproduction determination information, the color reproduction determination information indicating whether the target color is contained in the color reproduction region for each of the ink amount upper limit candidates. <EOS>