Patent ID: 8724173

Claim:
A control apparatus, comprising: a selecting unit configured to select, upon previewing image data before printing using data indicating whether or not each pixel of the image data is to be recorded by a clear recording agent, whether or not a pixel to be recorded by the clear recording agent is displayed; a display control unit configured, in a case where it is selected that a pixel to be recorded by the clear recording agent is displayed by the selecting unit, and in order to display in a display device a pixel to be recorded by the clear recording agent among rendered image data using a predetermined color designated, to output an image in which a color of a pixel to be recorded by the clear recording agent is replaced with the predetermined color, and in a case where it is selected that a pixel to be recorded by the clear recording agent is not displayed by selecting unit, to control such that a pixel to be recorded by the clear recording agent is not displayed in the display device.