[Openicc] Print and Monitor Color Pipeline-stepping back further...

[Graeme Gill]

Scott Geffert wrote:

> In this scenario users routinely push color-lets say red lipstick or skin tones to very
> strange places. Yet on the other hand, nearly all color management concepts are related
> to very specific OBJECTIVE display and printer profiles and very strict "by the
> numbers" Pass/Fail tolerances.

There is no conflict or contradiction here. The aim is to make the systems
at least reliable, predictable and repeatable, so that a colors that the users
want will come out the end of them. Whether those colors are measured or
chosen manually is irrelevant. Concepts such as "intent" are there to
signal to the systems what the user is after, when technical limitations
force tradeoffs.

> The almost complete absence of Input profiling today signals to me that printers using
> color management are doomed to fail due to trying to manage subjective chaos. In the

That doesn't follow at all. You can't make subjective judgements on un-profiled
gear, and expect those judgements to be preserved.

Graeme Gill.