[Openicc] printer, driver, CUPS, PPD, printing GUI, ICC-profiles, colord, Oyranos, taxi....

[Robert Krawitz]

On Wed, 18 Jan 2012 12:41:54 +0100, edmund ronald wrote:
>
> I would assume that Gutenprint would be running with very different
> inking settings when using external color management (ie. printing
> DeviceRGB) from when it attempts by itself to render images which is
> the legacy behavior and needs to be preserved for existing users.

In this situation (DeviceRGB, or preferably DeviceCMYK, or even better
yet, DeviceN), there's no reason Gutenprint should use its current
default inking settings.  With 16 bit input, there's no good reason not
to set very high ink limits and let the profile do the ink limiting.
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