[Openicc] Re: [Lcms-user] Seeking Generic CMYK Profile

[PLinnell]

On Monday 01 August 2005 17:56, Jan-Peter Homann wrote:
> Hi Peter, hi list
> The following discussion should be moved to the openicc
> mailinglist, because it is general point, not only connected with
> LCMS.
>
> PLinnell wrote:
>  > Hi,
>  >
>  > Can anyone point me to a decent freely distributable CMYK
>  > "generic print" icc profile ? One which we could ship with
>  > Scribus and perhaps some other OSS apps. The idea is just to
>  > have the CMS operable right from the start.
>  >
>  > The ECI profiles are good, but too large to ship with apps and
>  > cannot be split up by the license.
>  >
>  > Thanks in advance,
>  >
>  > Peter
>
> --
>
> At the opennicc mailinglist was a discussion about
> standard-profiles and their locoation in the OSSearch the
> mailinglist  e.g. for "profile distribution / Adobe / ECI"
>
> Kai Uwe made an installers according this discussion under:
>
>
> The "ECI Offset2004" package ia available as rpm from:
> <http://www.behrmann.name/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id
>=34&Itemid=68>
>
> regards
> Kai-Uwe Behrmann
>
>                                  + http://www.behrmann.name
>
>
>
> For an optimal solution, the standard printer-profiles for OSS
> applications should be calculated with argyllCMS on the basis of
> standard characterization-data:
>
> CGATS TR001 (SWOP)
> FOGRA27 (ISOcoated)
>
> from http://www.color.org
>
>
> If anybody would be interested to do this, I would give some
> recomendations about gamutmapping and blackgeneration. I also would
> test the profiles in comparison to Adobe / ECI versions.
>
> Unfortunatly, i´m not user of the terminal, so I can´t do it by
> myself.
>
> If somebody would write  a GUI for argyll-scripting, the
> OSS-community could deliver a functionality, which is not available
> at Adobe, Quark or other DTP-software vendors:
>
> Calculating printing profiles from standard-characterization-data
> with different black-generation.
>
> This is nothing for beginners, but it would be really impressive to
> professional users, which often asked for this feature in Photoshop
> / InDesign.
>
> :-) Jan-Peter

Hi,

1) A big thanks to Graeme Gill who kindly sent me a profile which will 
fit this particular need very well.

2) In fits and starts I have shared making some rpms for installing 
profiles on Linux. I have someone in mind to see about building a 
debian repo for these too.


Thanks,
Peter