Patent ID: 8379232

Claim:
An image processing device comprising: an ejection amount estimation unit that estimates an ejection amount of the fluid from input image data, wherein the ejection amount estimation unit estimates the ejection amount of the fluid for each area specified on a medium to which the fluid is ejected, the image processing device further comprises a curl state prediction unit that predicts a curl state of the medium, a curl occurring as the fluid is ejected to the medium, based on a position of the area on the medium and the ejection amount of the fluid ejected to the area, and the curl state prediction unit converts a force of causing the medium to curl in a predetermined direction and a force of causing the medium to curl in a direction intersecting the predetermined direction so as to be different from each other when converting the ejection amount of the fluid for each area to a force of causing the medium to curl, and predicts a curl amount for each area based on the force of causing the medium to curl.