[Openicc] [argyllcms] Re: CC Profiles In X Specification and dispwin

[Hal V. Engel]

On Monday 14 January 2008 14:23:00 Kai-Uwe Behrmann wrote:
> My guess is, that Robert Krawitz could do the measuring for his
> devices/driver combinations and publishing the CGATS files and profile.

My understanding is that Robert does not have the measurement hardware needed 
to do this.  So I don't think he could provide such a service.  For printers 
this is also highly dependant on the specific paper being used and the 
printer settings.  Printers also have significant sample to sample variation 
and for some printers different batches of ink/toner can have significantly 
different characteristics.  So I don't think this is a workable solution even 
if Robert had the hardware to do this.

In addition the amount of work it would take to measure all of the possible 
combinations is huge.   I think I want Robert focused on improving his 
software rather than spending his time do profiling measurements.

> I'd think someone will assist in setting up profiling.

This is sort of the flip side.  Once somene has a good set of measurements it 
is not difficult to produce profiles.  For printers the best solution for 
most non-Windows and non-OS/X users is to use a printer profiling service.  
These are now fairly inexpensive (around $25)  and you end up with a custom 
profile that is for your workflow, paper and printer.   

I personally think that we should focus on making our software correctly 
support using these profiles since it is unrealistic to think that we will 
somehow end up with a repository of profiles that would be useful to a wide 
range of users.   There are just too any things that are specific to each 
user for this to work.

Hal