Image forming apparatus, color conversion control method, recording medium, and information processing apparatus having printer driver
AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorHideki Toda
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus is disclosed that performs a color conversion process in accordance with a color conversion setting set by an information processing apparatus that generates print data. The image forming apparatus includes a determination unit determining whether a valid color conversion setting has been performed by the information processing apparatus based on received print data; and a control unit controlling the color conversion process to be performed by the image forming apparatus based on a result determined by the determination unit.
Claims9
An image forming apparatus performing a color conversion process in accordance with a color conversion setting set by an information processing apparatus that generates print data, the image forming apparatus comprising:
- a determination unit configured to determine whether a color conversion setting performed by the information processing apparatus is valid based on received print data, the received print data including information indicating whether the performed color conversion setting is valid or invalid;
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- a control unit configured to control the color conversion process to be performed by the image forming apparatus based on a result determined by the determination unit.
A color conversion control method to be used in an image forming apparatus performing a color conversion process in accordance with a color conversion setting set by an information processing apparatus that generates print data, the color conversion control method comprising:
- determining whether a color conversion setting has been performed by the information processing apparatus based on received print data, the received print data including information indicating whether the performed color conversion setting is valid or invalid;
- selecting, as the color conversion process to be performed, a standard color conversion process if the determination step determines that the color conversion setting performed by the information processing apparatus in the determination step is valid;
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- selecting, as the color conversion process to be performed by the image forming apparatus, an extended color conversion process if the determination step determines that the color conversion setting performed by the information processing apparatus in the determination step is not valid, the extended color conversion process being a process that uses a color conversion setting set in accordance with color rendering information of the image forming device, the standard color conversion process being a process that uses a color conversion setting set in accordance with color rendering information of the information processing apparatus.
An information processing apparatus having a printer driver configured to receive a color conversion setting through a user interface menu and generate print data including the received setting, wherein
- the printer driver performs exclusive control between a color conversion setting of Image Color Management (ICM) of the information processing apparatus and a color conversion setting set by a vendor's own extended command in a manner such that the color conversion setting set by the vendor's own extended command is to be performed when the setting of the Image Color Management (ICM) is determined to be invalid ICM.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.