<div>I'm the Gutenprint color geek, I guess. As such, I guess in a way my job is also to manage expectations.</div><div><br></div><div>I don't think we are going to live in a perfect world. Color managed Linux users are not going to see perfection. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Screen and print won't match in most consumer scenarios, although they may and should match on *our* systems. We should be well aware of that.</div><div><br></div><div>For our purposes -Gutenprint- I think we should have agreement that profiling will bring the print system into a well known state, which incidentally means a decent screen to print match in strong print viewing lighting, using a calibrated screen. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Users should be free to move from this state, later, and tune the print so they are comfortable their own esthetics, screen and viewing condtions. </div><div><br></div><div>Telling users to go out and buy a viewing booth is not going to cut it. If they say "my prints are too dark", we need to tell them, yes, that is because you have a profile that is specifically tailored to irrealistic industry-standard viewing conditions. And, if necessary we should be prepared to tell them clearly that they need to compensate by eye for their own esthetics and viewing condition psychophysics.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Edmund</div>