[Openicc] Assigning icc profiles to driver settings

[Leonard Rosenthol]

On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 11:26 AM, Jan-Peter Homann <
homann at colormanagement.de> wrote:

> 1) PPD colour keywords:
> The PPD for a given printer must be able, to describe all color relevant
> driver settings with all parameters (incl. low level driver settings if
> necessary)
> an ICC profile will be assigned to a proper parametrized PPD and the PPD
> will completely set up the color options in the printer driver.
>
>
I (and other folks at Adobe) support thsi model.  In fact, we've been trying
to convince various printer vendors to do this for their PPDs for YEARS.
 However, all of the major vendors are unwilling to do so for various
business and/or technical reasons.  So any provided PPDs would need to be
MODIFIED versions of the originals...



> 2) Driver settings implemented as metadata-information into the ICC-profile
> Like with the PPD-workflow, all color relebant printer driver settings are
> stored as metadata into the ICC-profile.


Modification of ICC profiles is a BAD IDEA!

As noted elsewhere in the thread, it breaks the ID and prevent the use of
the profiles in other workflows where comparison of profiles is important.
 In addition, many/most of the standard profiles do NOT support modification
as part of their license.  (discussions of OSS licensing for profiles to
/dev/null please).


Leonard
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