[Openicc] Communication between Printer Driver and Oyranos

[Robert Krawitz]

On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 12:33:43 +0000, Richard Hughes wrote:
> On 24 January 2011 12:20, Robert Krawitz <rlk at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>> On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 10:42:37 +0000, Richard Hughes wrote:
>>> In this instance, the default vendor supplied profile for the printer
>>> will be good enough for the 99% of documents the user is going > Who's the "vendor" in this case?
>
> Good question. :-)
>
> In this instance, I see the vendor as Distro/CUPS/Ghostscript as
> actual device manufactures don't seem all that willing to contribute
> ICC profiles or device settings to the free software stack.

For printers that aren't direct PostScript/PDF printers, the "device"
is actually a combination of the printer and the driver.  So even if,
say, Epson were willing to contribute a profile, it's not likely it
would work well with Gutenprint.