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

[Michael Sweet]

On Jan 18, 2012, at 2:55 AM, Kai-Uwe Behrmann wrote:
> ...
> Can a empty profile be published by a printer for listing the colour related options?
> printer-icc-profiles={ print-color-mode='' printer-resolution='' }

Not at present, and I dislike mixing things like this.

> That way clients know the required meta data for profile association.
> E.g. Gutenprint will come assumedly with no profiles for most of it's supported printers.

[Again, let's not mix up IPP Everywhere and CUPS PPD-based drivers...]

Clients have an existing job ticket based on the default and supported attributes and values for a printer.  Presumably a client that does soft proofing will ask the printer for its list of registered profiles and then iterate through the list to find the best match.  Nothing requires the client to know which attributes are needed for profile selection - the printer (separately) provides a list of attributes that can be used in a job ticket along with their default and supported values, and that will be a superset of what is required for profile selection.



> kind regards
> Kai-Uwe Behrmann
> -- 
> developing for colour management www.behrmann.name + www.oyranos.org
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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer, PWG Chair