In a receiver computer 100, a transmission controller 111 transmits user
interface data 171 to a transmitter computer 200. In the transmitter
computer 200, a display processing unit 213 causes a user interface for
inputting print settings information to be displayed on the screen of a
monitor 250, based on the transmitted user interface data 171. When the
print settings information is input via an input device 240, a
transmission controller 211 transmits color image data 271,
color-correction source data 272, and the input print settings
information to the receiver computer 100. In the receiver computer 100, a
print processing unit 114 carries out a variety of processing operations
with respect to color image data, based on the print settings
information. A color correction element 118 in the print processing unit
114 carries out a color correction of the color image data using the
color-correction source data 272 and color-correction destination data
172 read from a hard disk 170. A printer 180 prints a color image, which
is expressed by the contents of the color-corrected color image data.
This arrangement enables a printer connected to the receiver computer to
print a color image based on the print data transmitted from the
transmitter computer via a computer network, even if a printer driver
exclusively provided for the printer has not been installed in the
transmitter computer.