Method for prepress-time color match verification and correction

A computer-implemented method of matching color elements for objects having different rendering intents within a print job prior to printing, comprising:

• identifying all objects within the print job, each object's type, each object's rendering intent and all source colors associated with each object;
• for each object in the print job, transforming each object's source colors using a prototypical color transformation;
• identifying sets of transformed objects having source colors that match within a first tolerance level after the prototypical transformation process;
• transforming all transformed objects using a target printer's color space;
• identifying any of the transformed objects in each set that do not match within a second tolerance level to form a group of mismatched objects;
• identifying any object types within the group of mismatched objects having at least two different rendering intents;
• for each object type having at least two different rendering, selecting one of the rendering intents in accordance with a predetermined criterion;
• and
• assigning the selected rendering intent to at least one other instance of that object type.