[Openicc] [Gimp-print-devel] [Printing-architecture] Colour

[Michael Sweet]

On Nov 13, 2009, at 5:07 AM, edmund ronald wrote:
> Actually, the only color mode I cannot live without is "No Color
> Management", which can also be called "Application Color Management"

Keep in mind that many printers do not offer a "no color management"  
mode. For example, all but a few of HP's inkjet printers only support  
printing with sRGB (there is no DeviceN path), and both Canon and  
Epson are moving to sRGB command sets as well.  Even for printers that  
*do* support DeviceN paths, none of the available drivers (not even  
Gutenprint) provides a true DeviceN color path, so your "Application  
Color Management" path is less useful than you think.

> All the rest is useful but not essential, and as all the rest can be
> counted on to break, but "No color Management" allows any graphics pro
> to get good results by color managing upstream.

I would argue that most "graphics pros" do not actually understand  
what they are doing WRT color management and profiling, or the  
limitations of their workflow.

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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer