[Openicc] Re: Hello *and* (was): LINUX, Gutenprint / CUPS / Color policies

[Chris Murphy]

On May 12, 2005, at 5:41 PM, Jim Gettys wrote:

> To pick a nit, HP does provide drivers for Linux almost all of our
> printers.  They certainly don't do much in the way of color management,
> however.

That may not be a bad thing. :P There are a number of HP printer 
models, whose Mac/Windows drivers don't let you turn of the proprietary 
color management, which is dynamic based upon image content. This means 
it defies profiling, so you pretty much have to convert to sRGB and 
hope for the best.


Chris Murphy
Color Remedies (TM)
www.colorremedies.com/realworldcolor
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