[Openicc] Assigning icc profiles to driver settings

[Jan-Peter Homann]

Hello to all,

During the discussion started with colord, one important topic is the 
association of an icc profile to a printer driver setting.

Currently, it seems to me, that we have following possibilities:

1) PPD colour keywords:
The PPD for a given printer must be able, to describe all color relevant 
driver settings with all parameters (incl. low level driver settings if 
necessary)
an ICC profile will be assigned to a proper parametrized PPD and the PPD 
will completely set up the color options in the printer driver.

2) Driver settings implemented as metadata-information into the ICC-profile
Like with the PPD-workflow, all color relebant printer driver settings 
are stored as metadata into the ICC-profile. The printer driver must be 
able to extract this information from the ICC profile and will be 
completely setup by the ICC-profile itself.

3) serialized driver settings
The driver settings are able to be serialized (which optimally able to 
be exported and imported)
The ICC-profile will be associated with the serial ID of the driver setting.


It would be interesting to know, which of these ways are preferred by 
the community.

Best regards
Jan-Peter




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