Patent ID: 8223404

Claim:
An image forming system comprising: a component data acquiring unit that acquires a component from a color lookup table data; a generating rule acquiring unit that acquires a predetermined generating rule; said predetermined generating rule being used to create said color lookup table; a verifying unit that determines whether or not the component of the color lookup table data acquired by the component data acquiring unit has been generated according to a predetermined generating rule; and a download data generating unit that downloads the color lookup table data and generates download data to be used in image forming processing from the color lookup table data if the verifying unit determines that the component has been generated according to the generating rule and does not download the color lookup table if the verifying unit determines that the component has not been generated according to the generating rule and a verification result displaying unit that displays a result of determining whether or not the component has been generated according to the generating rule by displaying a management ID that has been attached to the color lookup table if the verifying unit determines that the component has been generated according to the generating rule and displaying the reason why if the verifying unit determined that the component was not been generated according to the generating rule.