[Openicc] Assigning icc profiles to driver settings

[edmund ronald]

Jan Peter,

 This a problem which directly concerns all who deal with the print
process. Your position on ICC-related issues has been that there
should not be a direct public engagement of the ICC with outside
developers ; in that context -even as an ICC member - I would say that
it is counterproductive to use an ICC-standardised format for the
various settings values related to setting up a printer.

 Decide whether you want to engage in a public debate before
standardisation, with all parties on an equal footing or whether you
want a private club to run things - but if it is a private club, don't
expect us to follow.

Edmund

On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 5:26 PM, Jan-Peter Homann
<homann at colormanagement.de> wrote:
> 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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