Patent ID: 7258498

Claim:
A printing system comprising: a client system for creating a print job; a printer for executing the print job; and a server capable of communicating by way of a communication network with the client system and controlling the printer; the client system comprising: an assuming means for assuming that a predetermined color profile is embedded in image data when no color profile is previously embedded in the image data; a selecting means for selecting a selected color profile from among an original color profile previously embedded in the image data and a user-requested color profile, based on a setting previously defined by the user, when the original color profile is previously embedded in the image data; and a print job creating means for creating a print job including the image data and a printing color profile, using the predetermined color profile as the printing color profile, when no color profile is previously embedded in the image data, and using the selected color profile as the printing color profile, when the original color profile is previously embedded in the image data, the server comprising: a memory means for storing a printer color profile of the printer; a color matching means for applying color matching on the image data included in the print job, based on the printing color profile included in the print job and the printer color profile stored in the memory means; and a printer controlling means for sending the image data on which color matching is applied to the printer and for controlling the printer to print the image data.