[Openicc] Assigning icc profiles to driver settings

[Ann L McCarthy]

Leonard,

At the Nov ICC meeting we discussed this issue and agreed to continue 
working on it.
So -- in the meantime -- let's understand that this is a issue pending a 
solution, rather than giving the impression that there is no solution.

Best regards,
Ann McCarthy
Imaging Systems R&D
Lexmark International, Inc.






Leonard Rosenthol <leonardr at pdfsages.com> 
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01/18/2011 01:49 PM

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Re: [Openicc] Assigning icc profiles to driver settings






On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 11:26 AM, Jan-Peter Homann <
homann at colormanagement.de> wrote:
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.


I (and other folks at Adobe) support thsi model.  In fact, we've been 
trying to convince various printer vendors to do this for their PPDs for 
YEARS.  However, all of the major vendors are unwilling to do so for 
various business and/or technical reasons.  So any provided PPDs would 
need to be MODIFIED versions of the originals...

 
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. 

Modification of ICC profiles is a BAD IDEA!  

As noted elsewhere in the thread, it breaks the ID and prevent the use of 
the profiles in other workflows where comparison of profiles is important. 
 In addition, many/most of the standard profiles do NOT support 
modification as part of their license.  (discussions of OSS licensing for 
profiles to /dev/null please).
 

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