Patent ID: 7821659

Claim:
An image processing device comprising: a print job receiving unit that receives an image data sent from an image processing terminal and a print job which is a drawing command; a spot color replacement designating unit that receives a designation to replace a spot color, which is designated before receiving the print job, in the print job received by the print job receiving unit with a spot color which is different than the designated spot color, or that receives a designation to replace the spot color, which is designated before receiving the print job, in the print job received by the print job receiving unit with a process color which is different than the designated spot color; an extracting unit that extracts color information of the spot color, which is designated before receiving the print job, in the print job received by the print job receiving unit; a color replacing unit; wherein when the spot color replacement designating unit receives a designation to replace with a spot color which is different than the designated spot color, replaces the color information of the spot color which is extracted by the extracting unit with the color information of the spot color designated by the spot color replacement designating unit and further replaces the color information of the replaced spot color with a CMYK value corresponding to the replaced spot color, and when the spot color replacement designating unit receives a designation to replace with a process color which is different than the designated spot color, replaces the color information of the spot color which is extracted by the extracting unit with the color information of the process color designated by the spot color replacement designating unit; a color correcting unit carrying out color correction on a CMYK value of a replaced process color but not carrying out color correction on a CMYK value of a replaced spot color.