[Openicc] Introduction / Gutenprint

[Graeme Gill]

Gerhard Fuernkranz wrote:

> Robert L Krawitz schrieb:
>> Agreed. There's also "gloss optimizer", which is basically a clear
>> ink that's intended to be used in areas with little ink to even out
>> the ink usage and match the gloss for the entire image.
>>
> Wow! That's IMO also a channel, which should be added by the driver 
> automatically, and which should not be considered as additional channel 
> by an ICC profile, since it is not applied for colorimetric reasons 
> (i.e. to achieve the right color), but for different criteria.

It seems entirely possible to add the gloss optimizer in the separation
lookup. It would certainly be the fastest way to do it, since it is likely
to be a similar computation to that used to enforce the ink limit.

Graeme Gill.