[Openicc] Communication between Printer Driver and Oyranos

[Jan-Peter Homann]

Hello list, hello Uwe

Think over my last post about print color pipeline, I would like to ask 
Uwe, if following workflow could be technically possible in future with 
Oyranos:

1) Creation of different printer driver settings with assigned printer 
profiles
Depinding on his media and quality / speed needs, the user creates 
different settings of his printer driver withh assigned ICC profiles for 
the settings. These profiles could be canned profiles or individiual 
made profiles.

2) Activating connection between printerdriver and Oyranos
The printer driver looks on the computer for Oyranos. If Oyranos is 
found, the driver provides to Oyranos the ICC profile assigned to the 
current print setting.

3) Colormanagement aware application and Oyranos
A colormanagement aware application talks concerning output device 
profiles only to Oyranos. If output is rendered to the monitor, it uses 
the monitor profile specified in Oyranos.
During printing it uses the print profile from Oyranos, which gets it 
automatically from the printer driver.


Uwe,
- Would this technically possible ?
- Do you think, such workflow would make sense from your point of view ?

Best regards
Jan-Peter

PS: it would be also interesting for me to hear, what people form the 
Gnome colormanager community would think about this workflow idea.

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