Patent ID: 8416451

Claim:
A system, comprising: a user interface; a document input device configured to receive data representing an input document; a document output device configured to generate a document based upon the data received; and a processor executing a color control program, the processor configured to: select a set of sampling color values; process each selected sampling color value using a first color processing path between the document input device and the document output device to generate a reference output color profile; process each selected sampling color value using color processing paths available on the document output device other than the first color processing path to generate remaining output color profiles; determine differences between the reference output color profile and each of the remaining output color profiles; assign natural language descriptions to the determined differences; present the natural language descriptions of the determined differences to a user; receive a selection of one of the presented natural language descriptions from the user; and produce an output copy using one or more color processing paths that correspond to the selected natural language description.