[Openicc] printing GUI vs. printerdriver, LINUX colorinfrastructure

[Carol Spears]

On Sat, Apr 16, 2005 at 03:06:03PM -0700, Hal V Engel wrote:
> 
> Some one else in another post in this thread wrote "...but ICC is not
> the be all and end all of color management!"  This is in part true but ICC is 
> the glue that holds everything together.  CM is an end to end process that 
> starts with the source image from a camera, scanner or artists drawing and 
> ends, in some cases but not all, with a printed document or image.  The one 
> constant in that process is the use of ICC profiles to characterize the color 
> spaces of the devices in the processing path.  This allows the needed color 
> space transformations to happen in a standardized predictable way at each 
> point it is needed.  As such it is a critical part of CM that must be 
> understood and used correctly by every sub-system along the image processing 
> path.  We should not lose site of the fact that it is ICC that makes what we 
> are trying to do possible even if there are other things that are equally 
> important.
> 
in my opinion, without a test suite, the glue is just wall paper paste.

photographs are a really good place to start.  you need to get
information from this device to this other device.  it is very very
clear at the photograph level.  at least to me.

thanks,
carol