Patent ID: 7999854

Claim:
An image information processing system, comprising: a special information storage section that stores a plurality of special information related to an application program corresponding to a peripheral, the plurality of special information being for processing image data so as to have characteristics that are appropriate for output by the peripheral; a data input/output section that inputs and outputs data with respect to the peripheral; a discrimination section that identifies a type of the peripheral and that discriminates a special information stored in the peripheral based on the data input from the data input/output section in response to a connection of the peripheral; a special information selecting section that selects predetermined special information from among the plurality of special information stored in the special information storage section based on the type of the peripheral identified by the discrimination section; a comparator that compares whether the special information stored in the peripheral discriminated by the discrimination section matches the predetermined special information selected by the special information selecting section; an executing section that performs processing on the image data based on the comparison result of the comparator; and an image data output section that outputs to the peripheral the image data, to which processing has been performed by the executing section.