Patent ID: 7528988

Claim:
A print control apparatus comprising: a parameter acceptance unit for accepting, from a print system having a first printer, a parameter used for trial processing for each mode of the first printer using a second, different printer at a user system, the parameter including a device link profile (DLP) based on a target profile (TP) of the first printer of the print system and a device profile (DP) of the user system; a trial print instruction unit for judging, based on the parameters, as to whether or not a request for the trial processing at the user system is acceptable, wherein if the request is acceptable, the trial print instruction unit instructs the print system to execute raster image processing for image data in accordance with the parameters to obtain processed image data that enables image output from the second printer to be identical with that output by the first printer; a reception unit for receiving the processed image data from the print system; and a transmission unit for transmitting the received image data to a user terminal at the user system.