Patent ID: 8564833

Claim:
A control apparatus, comprising: a selecting unit configured to select, upon previewing image data before printing using data indicating whether or not each pixel of the image data is to be recorded by a clear recording agent, whether or not a pixel to be recorded by the clear recording agent is displayed using an alternative color; a display control unit configured, in a case where it is selected that a pixel to be recorded by the clear recording agent is displayed using an alternative color by the selecting unit, in order to display in a display device a pixel to be recorded by the clear recording agent among rendered image data using an alternative color designated in advance, to output an image in which a color of a pixel to be recorded by the clear recording agent is replaced with the alternative color, and in a case where it is selected that a pixel to be recorded by the clear recording agent is displayed without using an alternative color by selecting unit, to control such that a pixel to be recorded by the clear recording agent is not displayed in the display device; and a printing unit configured to print a pixel to be recorded by the clear recording agent using the clear recording agent.