Patent ID: 8488202

Claim:
A non-transitory computer program product for use with a computer, the computer program product comprising a computer usable medium including a set of instructions for determining which, among a plurality of printers or print conditions, printer or print condition is suitable for printing an image to be printed, wherein the set of instructions comprises: a first step of dividing an area of the image to be printed into a first image area, and a second image area, and obtaining a proportion of the first image area or the second image area relative to an entire area of the image; and a second step of comparing the obtained proportion of the first image area or of the second image area to a threshold and outputting a result of the comparing, wherein the division is conducted by setting an area of the image to be printed where a degree of variation of information is small, to the first image area, and an area where the degree of variation of information is large, to the second image area, and wherein a determination of whether the degree of variation of information is large or small is performed by producing a blurred image of the image to be printed, and comparing a difference between the blurred image and the image to be printed, with a predetermined threshold.