Patent ID: 7961352

Claim:
A printing control device which performs printing control for printing by using color materials of a plurality of types, comprising: an acquiring unit that acquires a color material set which is a combination of the color materials used for printing; and a creation unit that creates a color conversion profile which prescribes conversion rules for converting image data expressed by a first color space into image data expressed by a second color space which differs from the first color space and which is a color space expressed by a color material amount set which is a combination of usage amounts for the respective color materials constituting the color material set, wherein the acquiring unit includes: a request receiving unit that receives a request for a predetermined print performance; and a selecting unit that estimates the print performance when printing is performed by using respective color material sets which are constituted by using the combination of color materials and for selecting the color material set which satisfies the request on the basis of the estimate, and wherein the selecting unit acquires the selected color material set.