Patent ID: 8851593

Claim:
An image processing apparatus comprising: a memory that stores output characteristic information, which is information on image output characteristics of a printer, which is a printer specified for output; a receiving unit that receives a print command; a detector that detects a one-dimensional code in accordance with a print command received by the receiving unit; a generation unit that generates print data in accordance with a print command received by the receiving unit; a determination unit that determines, in a case where a one-dimensional code whose data is included in print data generated by the generation unit has been detected by the detector, whether or not a printer, which is a printer specified for output, is capable of printing the one-dimensional code with a predetermined print quality or higher by referring to the output characteristic information stored in the memory; and an alert unit that issues an alert in a case where the determination unit determines that the printer, which is a printer specified for output, is incapable of printing the one-dimensional code with the predetermined print quality or higher.