Patent ID: 8111436

Claim:
An image-forming method comprising recording an image including a plurality of pixels with an image-forming material which does not completely permeate into a recording medium so as to have a thickness on the recording medium, the image-forming method further comprising: setting an intended thickness of the image-forming material on the recording medium for each pixel; calculating an existing thickness corresponding to an existing application amount of the image-forming material for expressing each color space coordinate component of color space data at each pixel; and determining an application amount for each color by comparing of the intended thickness with the existing thickness at each pixel to adjust the color space coordinate component so as to attain the intended thickness while keeping the same color; and wherein the determining of the application amount for each color includes: selecting a minimum intended thickness of a pixel having a minimum thickness and a maximum intended thickness of a pixel having a maximum thickness from thicknesses determined in the determining of the intended thickness; adjusting critical values for adjusting balance between color plates by bringing the existing thickness as close as possible to the intended thickness at each of the pixel having the minimum thickness and the pixel having the maximum thickness while keeping the same color; and adjusting a thickness at each pixel by applying to the intended thickness for each pixel an adjusting ratio determined in the adjusting of the critical values.