Dear Kai-Uwe, As Max and Chris have pointed out, printer companies may need to point to a large number of ICC profiles for a print system.  It is most critical to overcome the misunderstanding that a printer HAS A profile. No. A print *condition* (the printer, the printer settings, the colorants selected, the paper in use) HAS A particular behavior that can be color managed using one profile. Even in this constrained case multiple profiles may be useful since each profile contains only one preference mapping (perceptual intent). Whatever means is developed to address your question should not limit the number of profiles that can be packaged for a print system. Best regards, Ann McCarthy Imaging Systems R&D Lexmark Imaging Solutions Division Lexmark International, Inc. <table width=100%> <tr valign=top> <td width=40%>Kai-Uwe Behrmann <ku.b@gmx.de> Sent by: openicc-bounces+almccart=lexmark.com@lists.freedesktop.org 05/17/2010 11:21 AM <td width=59%> <table width=100%> <tr valign=top> <td> <div align=right>To</div> <td>Leonard Rosenthol <leonardr@pdfsages.com> <tr valign=top> <td> <div align=right>cc</div> <td>Dov Isaacs <isaacs@adobe.com>, OpenICC Liste <openicc@lists.freedesktop.org> <tr valign=top> <td> <div align=right>Subject</div> <td>Re: [Openicc] Google Summer of Code 2009: Oyranos CUPS backend</table> <table> <tr valign=top> <td> <td></table> </table> <tt>Am 17.05.10, 11:09 -0400 schrieb Leonard Rosenthol: > On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 10:51 AM, Kai-Uwe Behrmann <ku.b@gmx.de> wrote: > >> What you propose is particially related to the "cupsICCProfile" PPD >> keyword. By this keyword the ICC profile is only named and not embedded in >> the PPD as you suggest. > > > In addition, cupsICCProfile isn't supported by desktop applications (such as > Adobe Acrobat/Reader) on any OS platform and certainly not in any situation > on Windows.   Is it widely enough used to even consider trying to support > it?  Certainly none of the major vendors are including this in profiles > supplied with printers - does it only appear in a customized CUPS driver > installation? We have practical no support for cupsICCProfile on Linux. It supports too few use cases. Linux is much networked. A PPD embedded ICC profile would be prefered. kind regards Kai-Uwe Behrmann -- developing for colour management www.behrmann.name + www.oyranos.org _______________________________________________ openicc mailing list openicc@lists.freedesktop.org </tt><a href=http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/openicc><tt>http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/openicc </tt></a>