In the end, whatever is done will *for consumers* be only as good as the pre-installed media prosets *and the downloadable crowdsourced ones*<div><br></div><div>Edmund<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 10:12 AM, Alastair M. Robinson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:blackfive@fakenhamweb.co.uk">blackfive@fakenhamweb.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Hi,<div class="im"><br>
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On 03/06/11 03:48, Chris Murphy wrote:<br>
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What if the driver Media Types were simply a means of choosing a behind-the-scenes sRGB to deviceN device-link profile?<br>
(or sRGB to RGB, or sRGB to CMYK, or Adobe RGB to CMYK - whatever the combination would necessarily be that produce<br>
the best out of box experience that the driver manufacturer/bundler is willing to produce).<br>
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That'd be fine - provided the selection process is transparent, and there's a simple, easily understandable one-to-one relationship between driver options and whatever blob represents the colour conversion - and provided installing new ones is easy.<br>
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What's not acceptable, to my mind, is a printer allowing a couple of dozen different option permutations to be selected, but only covering a handful of them with profiles (or whatever mechanism is in use), and leaving the user with no clue as to whether the options they've got selected have a valid corresponding profile (or whatever). Putting the "profile" (or devicelink, or whatever) first avoids this issue - I don't care how it's actually presented, whether the profiles and settings blobs are "imported" as presets, or whether they're presented as user-selectable profiles (which, yes, I know, is never going to happen) - just so long as the behaviour of the whole is predictable, scrutable, flexible and debuggable.<div class="im">
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All the best<br>
--<br>
Alastair M. Robinson<br>
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