Patent ID: 8111437

Claim:
An image processing method for an image processing device having a printer and a color matching processing function by using an ICC (International Color Consortium) profile, the image processing method comprising: analyzing printing instruction information of printing data; determining whether a request for color matching processing based on a device model profile described in XML (eXtensible Markup Language) format, being different from an ICC profile, describing a correlation between a color value of a color patch, printed by the printer, and a measurement value of the color patch is included in the printing instruction information; if it is determined that the request for color matching processing by using the device model profile described in XML format is included in the printing instruction information, selecting a computer device on a network, including a color matching processing function using the device model profile, and requesting color matching processing, using the device model profile described in XML format, to the computer device; sending image data of the print data and the printing instruction information of the print data to the computer device requesting the color matching processing; receiving and analyzing printing instruction information from the computer device, and determining whether the computer device performed the color matching processing using the device model profile described in XML format; if it is determined that the computer device performed the color matching processing using the device model profile described in XML format, the computer device is requested to transmit image data to which the color matching processing using the device model profile described in XML format is performed; and receiving image data on which the color matching processing is requested, where the device model profile described in XML format is described in the print instruction information, from the computer device.