Patent ID: 7728842

Claim:
An image formation processing simulation apparatus comprising: a receiving unit that receives image data to be processed by an image formation processing device; a performing unit that simulates processing the image data in the image formation processing device; a memory management unit that allocates a memory area for simulating the processing performed by the performing unit based on a memory size of the image formation processing device, monitors an amount of memory required for simulating the processing, and compares the amount of memory required for simulating the processing to the size of the allocated memory area; and an output unit that outputs information indicating whether the amount of memory required for simulating the processing exceeds the size of the allocated memory area, wherein the performing unit simulates processing the image data in the image formation processing device as if the image data was being processed by the image formation processing device, and wherein the output unit outputs a result of the processing simulated by the performing unit to a display.