Image processing apparatus, image output system, image processing control method and computer readable information recording medium

An image processing control method of an image processing apparatus comprising:

• carrying out communication with an image output request apparatus and plural image output apparatuses with which the image processing apparatus is connected;
• storing, in a profile storage part, as profile information, color gamuts of output images determined by at least image output methods of the plural image output apparatuses and output media;
• storing, in a color reference storage part, plural sets of color reference data for associating a color gamut of image data from the image output request apparatus with a color gamut of an output image that is output by one of the image output apparatuses which outputs the image data;
• determining whether it is possible to output the image data received from the image output request apparatus by the one of the image output apparatuses;
• determining, based on an instruction given by the image output request apparatus, the one of the image output apparatuses which outputs the image data received from the image output request apparatus by the communication, and determining, when it has been determined by the determining whether it is possible to output the image data that outputting by the one of the image output apparatuses is not possible, another one of the image output apparatuses as one which outputs the image data;
• generating, from the image data, a preview image for an image output result of the determined one of the image output apparatuses and image data for outputting to be used to output the image data by the determined one of the image output apparatuses, based on the image data given by the image output request apparatus, the profile information of the determined one of the image output apparatuses which outputs the image data and the color reference data;
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• controlling a transmission of the preview image to the image output request apparatus and a transmission of the image data for outputting to the determined one of the image output apparatuses.

A non-transitory computer readable information recording medium storing a program for causing a computer that acts as or controls operations of an image processing apparatus to execute an image processing control process comprising:

• carrying out communication with an image output request apparatus and plural image output apparatuses with which the image processing apparatus is connected;
• storing, in a profile storage part, as profile information, color gamuts of output images determined by at least image output methods of the plural image output apparatuses and output media;
• storing, in a color reference storage part, plural sets of color reference data for associating a color gamut of image data from the image output request apparatus with a color gamut of an output image that is output by one of the image output apparatuses which outputs the image data;
• determining whether it is possible to output the image data received from the image output request apparatus by the one of the image output apparatuses;
• determining, based on an instruction given by the image output request apparatus, the one of the image output apparatuses which outputs the image data received from the image output request apparatus by the communication, and determining, when it has been determined by the determining whether it is possible to output the image data that outputting by the one of the image output apparatuses is not possible, another one of the image output apparatuses as one which outputs the image data;
• generating, from the image data, a preview image for an image output result of the determined one of the image output apparatuses and image data for outputting to be used to output the image data by the determined one of the image output apparatuses, based on the image data given by the image output request apparatus, the profile information of the determined one of the image output apparatuses which outputs the image data and the color reference data;
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• controlling a transmission of the preview image to the image output request apparatus and a transmission of the image data for outputting to the determined one of the image output apparatuses.