Image processing device, image forming apparatus and image processing method

An image forming apparatus, comprising:

• a scanner that reads an image;
• an image forming unit that forms the image on a sheet on the basis of image data generated by the scanner;
• a display unit that displays the image to be formed on the sheet;
• a memory that stores a first profile and a second profile, the first profile representing a correspondence relationship between an RGB value of the image data and color space data of the image printed on the sheet in correspondence with the image data, and the second profile representing a correspondence relationship between the RGB value of the image data that is input to the display unit, and the color space data of the image displayed on the display unit;
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• a controller that specifies the color space data corresponding to the RGB value of the image data with the aid of the first profile, specifies the RGB value corresponding to the color space data specified by the first profile with the aid of the second profile, and uses the RGB value specified by the second profile as display data of the display unit.

An image processing method, comprising:

• specifying color space data corresponding to an RGB value of image data to be printed with the aid of a first profile representing a correspondence relationship between the RGB value of the image data and the color space data of an image printed on a sheet in correspondence with the image data;
• specifying the RGB value corresponding to the color space data specified by the first profile with the aid of a second profile representing a correspondence relationship between the RGB value of the image data that is input to the display unit, and the color space data of the image displayed on the display unit;
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• using the RGB value specified by the second profile as display data of the display unit.