A printer includes a printing mechanism, a display device, a print controller configured to control the printing mechanism to print an image on a print medium, and a display controller configured to make the display device display a preview image in which the image to be printed on the print medium and a processing position where processing is performed on the print medium after the printing are superimposed with each other.

A correction coefficient calculation unit including a reference image output unit that generates a reference image, a profile receiving unit that receives image information and printing information, the image information indicating a color characteristic related to an image to be displayed on a display unit, the printing information indicating a color characteristic related to a printing device, and a reference image division unit that creates printing characteristic data that associates the reference image with the reference image that has undergone color conversion based on the printing information and the image information.

Provided is an image conversion method that allows for the representation, on a display, the light and shade of a printed image obtained by printing the image on paper. The image conversion method includes a step of acquiring an illumination-light component and a reflectance component from an input image, a step of correcting the illumination-light component in accordance with display luminance information of a print mode in which the input image is to be printed, so that light and shade of the input image displayed on a display come close to light and shade of a printed image obtained by printing the input image in the print mode, and a step of acquiring a combined image by combining the corrected illumination-light component and the reflectance component or the corrected reflectance component.

A reproduction color profile correction system includes, a differential colorimetric value calculator which calculates a differential colorimetric value that is a difference between a predicted colorimetric value and a measured colorimetric value, the predicted colorimetric value being a colorimetric value of a predicted reproduction color corresponding to a process ink combination of an ink combination, and a measured colorimetric value being a colorimetric value obtained by measuring a reproduction color in a color chart corresponding to the process ink combination, and a colorimetric value corrector which corrects, by using the differential colorimetric value, a predicted colorimetric value of a reproduction color reproduced by the ink combination.

An original reading unit that inputs image data; an image generation unit that generates an image based on the image data; an image output unit that outputs, as a preview image, the image generated based on the image data; a touch panel display that displays the preview image; a color change region specifying unit that specifies, in the preview image, a region, a color of which is changed; and a control unit that performs control so that color change of the region specified by the color change region specifying unit is performed are included.

The technique of the present disclosure includes: a first image processor for first image processing; a second image processor for second image processing; a memory that stores the second-image-processed first image data; a first controller that outputs a signal every time the first image processor processes a predetermined amount of data; an output device that outputs the second-image-processed first image data from the memory to a printer based on the signal outputted by the first controller; and a second controller that causes the first image processor to process third image data based on input to the second image processor of second image data not inputted to the first image processor. Based on the signal outputted by the first controller every time the first image processor processes a predetermined amount of the third image data, the output device outputs the second-image-processed second image data to the printer.

An image processing device includes: a conversion relationship acquisition unit that acquires, for each of plural output destinations by which to output an image, a conversion relationship for performing color correction corresponding to each of the output destinations; a selection information acquisition unit that acquires, for each of the plural output destinations, selection information about whether or not to perform color correction using the conversion relationship; and an image data transmission unit that transmits, to a display device, image data expressing the image before or after performing color correction on a basis of the selection information acquired from the selection information acquisition unit.

A prescribed program causes a computer to display a first display region to execute printing by using a first color adopting an ordinary color ink being an ink of a process color and a specific color ink being an ink of a color other than the process color, and a second display region being different from the first display region to execute printing by using a second color being different from the first color and adopting at least the specific color ink.

An information processing apparatus includes a display and a processor. The display displays an image. The processor causes the display to display a color presenting section that presents color-related information and a multilayer display section that displays a multilayer structure of color-related information selected from the color presenting section.

In this method, a surface of a digital master of the printed product is subdivided into a plurality of areas based on at least a first area of the printed product being printed having a first set of color-affecting printing characteristics and at least a second area of the printed product having a second set of color-affecting printing characteristics. Each of the plurality of areas are assigned a printing press color profile or device link, and the colors from colorspaces corresponding to each set of color-affective printing characteristics are converted to a colorspace of the proofing device. This conversion is accomplished by determining, for each pixel, one of the plurality of areas of the digital master surface that the pixel belongs to, selecting the color profile or the device link profile, converting the values to proof colorant values, and assigning the proof colorant values to the proof.