To provide a print inspection system which enables the design and color of a label to be inspected based on correct electronic image data without misinterpreting printing instructions and adopting a wrong color sample and a printing operation to be performed using a design and a color designated by a user, and a printing inspection method.

A print inspection device 20 receives data relative to a finished product number designated by accessing a file server 40, from the file server 40, then creates printing instructions data and electronic image data based on the received data and displays the created printed instructions data on a display part 50. Further, the device 20 comprises the electronic image data with photographic data and outputs an error signal when the electronic image data and the photographic data do not coincide with each other beyond a set tolerance range.