COLORIMETRY ANALYTICAL APPARATUS AND METHOD

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an apparatus and a method to automatically decide causes of the change in color tones from colorimetry data. SOLUTION: The colorimetry analytical apparatus has a means to carry out colorimetry of a plurality of color patches different in dot area ratio printed on printed matters, and a means to analyze the change in color tones of the printed mattes based on the data obtained by the colorimetry. The colorimetry analytical method is applied to the above apparatus.