Patent ID: 7978367

Claim:
A printer control system comprising: a print and colorimetry instructing section delivering an instruction of printing an image based on predetermined image data and an instruction of colorimetry for a printed image; and a printer capable of carrying out a process according to the instruction supplied thereto from the print and colorimetry instructing section, the print and colorimetry instructing section delivers to the printer an exclusive-use start instruction to start exclusive use of the printer prior to output of the instruction of printing and the instruction of colorimetry, the print and colorimetry instructing section delivers to the printer an exclusive-use canceling instruction to cancel the exclusive use of the printer at a predetermined time subsequent to output of the exclusive-use start instruction; the print and colorimetry instruction section delivers the instruction of printing and the instruction of colorimetry during a period between output of the exclusive-use start instruction and output of the exclusive-use canceling instruction; and the printer carries out only a process according to the instruction from the print and colorimetry instructing section having delivered the exclusive-use start instruction until accepting a predetermined exclusive-use canceling instruction subsequent to acceptance of the exclusive-use start instruction; wherein the printer in response to the instruction of printing, prints the image on a printing medium based on the predetermined image data, and in response to the instruction of colorimetry: calculates a first distance between the printed image and a colorimetry device provided therewith in a feed direction of the printing medium based on an image position information defining a position of the image on the printing medium and a medium position information defining a position of the printing medium, and calculates a second distance between the printed image and the colorimetry device in a main scan direction of the colorimetry device based on the image position information and the medium position information, feeds the printing medium in the feed direction by the first distance, moves the colorimetry device in the main scan direction by the second distance, causes the colorimetry device to carry out colorimetry after the feed of the printing medium and the move of the colorimetry device, and delivers a colorimetric value obtained by the colorimetry to the print and colorimetry instructing section.