[Openicc] Print and monitor Color Pipeline

Jan-Peter Homann homann at colormanagement.de
Fri Jan 28 12:22:33 PST 2011


Hello Hal and all.

If you are able to render a bitmap with usage of ICC-profiles to the 
monitor, you are alo able to render a bitmap for a color managed print out.

Did I missed something ?

Best regards
Jan-Peter


Am 27.01.11 01:47, schrieb Hal V. Engel:
> On Wednesday, January 26, 2011 02:05:56 pm Jan-Peter Homann wrote:
>> Technically different ways for rendering data to the monitor and to the
>> print out does not make sense in my eyes.
> There is some technical difference that needs to be kept in mind.
>
> 1. Monitor output is happening in real time and for some applications may be
> happening at high frame rates.   In some cases like a photo editor the real
> time requirement has a major impact on usability (IE. you don't want to wait
> too long for a manipulation to the photo to be rendered by the editing
> software).  Print output never happens in real time and is never something
> that the user directly interacts with.
>
> 2. The overall software stacks are completely different and there are very few,
> if any,  shared components.
>

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