Patent ID: 8585171

Claim:
A printing system including: a printer comprising: a colorant system operable to identify a type of colorant installed at the printer for printing to a physical media; a print engine system operable to identify a type of print engine installed at the printer for printing to the media using the colorant; and a print controller operable to receive a request to identify the type of colorant installed at the printer and the type of print engine installed at the printer to allow for a determination of a color profile for the printer, to query the colorant system and the print engine system to identify the type of colorant and the type of print engine, and to respond to the request to allow for the determination of the color profile for the printer based on the type of colorant and the type of print engine; and a print server operable to receive the response to the request, to process the response to identify the type of colorant and the type of print engine, and to determine that at least one of a plurality of color profiles is not valid for the printer based on the type of colorant installed at the printer and the type of print engine installed at the printer.