Patent ID: 8861024

Claim:
A print color managing apparatus comprising: a color management condition setting section for setting color management conditions concerning management of color accuracy in a printing apparatus; a colorimetric data acquirer for acquiring colorimetric values of color patches printed as color specimens by the printing apparatus in association with a printing time of the color patches; an execution period determiner for determining an execution period for a calibration process on the printing apparatus based on a plurality of colorimetric values, which are acquired at a plurality of printing times by the colorimetric data acquirer, and the color management conditions, which are set by the color management condition setting section; a period display image generator for generating a period display image, which displays the execution period determined by the execution period determiner, wherein the period display image generator generates the period display image, which displays a remaining time calculated from a time that the execution period will expire, and wherein the execution period for a calibration process is a recommended time interval between calibrations of the printing apparatus.