[Openicc] [Gimp-print-devel] Looking ahead to 5.3

[edmund ronald]

I don't think Gutenprint itself should offer ANY embedded color management.

However, I believe Gutenprint should offer a good RGB photographer's
CM toolkit for using a spectro to
1. Help one linearize a printer for a given medium in order to get the
best gamut out of it.
2. Help one re-linearize a printer  the printer sample in line with a
known ideal sample that has been profiled.
3 Help one determine the ink curves
4 Provide a tool for printing profiling charts easily with no
sharpening or interpolation artefacts.
5 Provide standard one-click setting for printing color-managed images
in a profiled workflow, with the profile already applied.

Of course the members of these lists doubtless have better suggestions.

Edmund

On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 9:37 PM, Hal V. Engel <hvengel at astound.net> wrote:
> On Sunday 19 October 2008 07:50:03 Till Kamppeter wrote:
>> Robert Krawitz wrote:
>> >    From: "Hal V. Engel" <hvengel at astound.net>
>> >    Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 09:28:34 -0700
>> >
> snip
>
>> >    Also work is underway to add CM to the print work flow in a way
>> >    that makes it driver independent.  It will take a while for this to
>> >    appear and then more time for it to mature but it will eventually
>> >    be part of the new PDF based printing work flow.  Once that is in
>> >    place CM printing will become available to all applications running
>> >    on *nix platforms.
>> >
>> > I think it's time we determine exactly what role Gutenprint (or the
>> > driver, in general) should take in the overall color processing
>> > workflow -- what our responsibilities should be and what features we
>> > should offer.