Patent ID: 7341323

Claim:
A printing control device for controlling a printing device to print on a printing medium a printing image corresponding to printing data by using a printing head for adhering ink on the printing medium, comprising: an error acquiring unit for acquiring error information expressing a result of comparing a colorimetric data obtained by measuring a color of a standard image of a standard recording amount in the ink printed on the printing medium in a specified color space with a reference colorimetric data; a printing control unit for correcting, by using the error information, printing data expressing an image into printing data compensating for a color drift of the image to be printed by the printing device, and controlling the printing device to print a printing image corresponding to the corrected printing data; and a storage area for storing a plurality of color correcting data specifying a relationship of correspondence between printing data before the correction and corrected printing data for compensating the color drift in the printing image for every plurality of stages of comparison results between the colorimetric data obtained by measuring the color of the standard images in the specified color space and the reference colorimetric data, wherein the printing control unit specifies the color correcting data corresponding to the error information among a plurality of color correcting data stored in the storage area, and corrects the printing data by referring the color correcting data.