[Openicc] Print Color Pipeline + No Colormanagement

[Jan-Peter Homann]

Hello Kai-Uwe, hello list
May be I´m wrong, because I´m not a developer...

I tried to describe a workflow, where the printer driver is the place to 
assign ICC-profiles to driver settings. The g-c-m is in this case a 
central place for applications to know, which profile is currently valid 
for the driver setting, or if a printout without any ICC based color 
transformation is should be made.

Based on this infrastructure we can either have a graphics library which 
is doing color transformations from document colorspace to the output 
device (monitor or printer driver setting) or the application itself 
handles such color transformations.

As the printer driver has a connection to g-c-m, we can be shure, that 
there is only one color transformation from document colorspace to 
printer driver setting.

If printer driver settings incl. assigned ICC-profiles could be exported 
and imported, we have several workflow scenarious both for standard and 
color expert users:
- driver settings with cannend profiles as part of the driver standard 
installation
- vendors of print media offering downloads of drivers settings incl. 
ICC profiles
- esay possibilty to build up an infrastructure for profiling services
- easy possibility to start ArgyllCMS as profiling engine direct from 
the driver and assign the Argyll-profile automatically to the driver 
setting.

My question to Kai-Uwe
Would be a similar workflow possible with Oyranos ?

Best regards
Jan-Peter


Am 24.01.11 16:50, schrieb Kai-Uwe Behrmann:
> Am 24.01.11, 16:03 +0100 schrieb Jan-Peter Homann:
>> Now, the user  wants for his preferred photopaper his own profile.
>> In the driver, he changes the queue settings for 
>> "Photopaper-best-quality" by activating the Option 
>> "Testchart-Printing". By activating this option the driver sends 
>> "ProfilingInhibit" to colord.
>> If the testchart will be printed, the Gnome Color Manager tells the 
>> application / service which renders the data for printout not to 
>> apply any color conversion.
>
> As Richard and Tim have now "no colour management" option designed, 
> its very specific and works only inside g-c-m. There is no obligation 
> that this works relyable together with any other CMS.
>
> kind regards
> Kai-Uwe Behrmann


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