Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Kensuke Nozaki

Kikuo Naito

Hayato Kubo

Natsuki Uemura

This invention provides a color print control method of acquiring an optimum profile by a simple profile acquisition process in consideration of the clustering configuration. According to the color print control method of this invention, a printer manager () manages a combination of color printers as a virtual printer. A color setting manager () manages a color profile used for color matching in association with the virtual printer and output paper. A job controller () controls to accept a print job, whose destination is the managed virtual printer and which contains color matching settings, cause a rendering unit () to render the print job, acquire a profile for each virtual printer, and cause a color management processor () to perform color matching.

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Kawasaki, Japan

Kensuke Nozaki