Patent ID: 7532349

Claim:
An image processing method in an image processing system to which a client computer and at least one color image forming apparatus are connected, the color image forming apparatus preparing an image for outputting by means of a printer, said method performed by the client computer and comprising the steps of: displaying to a user a list of profiles available on the client computer; receiving profile administration data from the color image forming apparatus; judging whether a predetermined profile is non-existent in the color image forming apparatus, on the basis of the received profile administration data; in a case where it is judged in said judging step that the predetermined profile is non-existent in the color image forming apparatus, registering the predetermined profile on the color image forming apparatus; adding a respective printer identifier of each of one or more printers connected to the color image forming apparatus on which the predetermined profile has been registered, to a registration destination printer list to be used in judging whether the predetermined profile in the client computer is registered in each of the printers; and incrementing the total number of the registered-destination printers for the registered output profile.