Apparatus, method, and program product providing specific version of color profile, according to print job attributes, to each client to be associated with version independent unified name

摘要

There are provided a profile providing apparatus, a profile providing system, a profile providing method, and a profile providing program that allow providing a profile of the appropriate version while reducing the burden relevant to a setting on the client side. A version selection unit, which selects one of a plurality of versions stored in a profile database as a specific version, and a transmission processing unit, which transmits a profile of the selected specific version to each client apparatus so as to be associated with a unified name that does not depend on the version, are provided.

主权项

1. A profile providing apparatus for providing a color profile to at least one client apparatus, comprising:
a profile database in which the color profile is stored for each version; a version selection unit that selects one of a plurality of versions stored in the profile database as a specific version, wherein the version selection unit selects the specific version according to attributes of a print job to which the color profile is to be applied, and wherein, when the print job has been executed in the past, the version selection unit selects a version applied during the execution as the specific version; and a transmission processing unit that transmits the color profile of the specific version selected by the version selection unit to each client apparatus so as to be associated with a unified name that does not depend on the version.