[Openicc] Epson HTM CUPS drivers

[edmund ronald]

There's been some debate between me and the other Gutenprint guys on
the topic of locked down drivers. The open source ethos is full
tunability, while as a color consultant my desire is to keep the
client's big messy paws away from the HurtMe buttons.

The compromise which has finally percolated down to execution is to
move every media setting and adjustment possible to a single settings
file, and allow the file to be loaded and saved. This offers the
possibility of locking down an installation by allowing access to
exactly one setting: The settings file. Commercial installations would
have some predefined settings tuned by their support expert, with
corresponding profiles, and that would be it. Consumer Linux
installations would have predefined canned settings for known media
types. And Joe Hackintosh could tune his ink curves to his heart's
desire.

Edmund


On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 3:37 AM, Chris Murphy <lists at colorremedies.com> wrote:

> I think a tool that creates a locked down PPD to present fully packaged settings is what any mortal person really wants. That tool can expose all kinds of stuff if you want. But for the primary print dialog to present 24 panels of incoherent (to normal people) options is, IMO, going to go no where. That's turning that person's bedroom or office into a laboratory requiring a lot of experimentation. The tuning is painful and really iterative, and the UI makes the tuning way harder than it really needs to be. There aren't 255 levels of granularity for paper thickness.
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> So I'll buy off on high end printing wanting more control than in the Epson driver, but they're better off getting a commercial product so they can bake those settings and attach them to a folder to guarantee that those settings are always used 100% reliably for all users on the network. They will also want workflow assistance with printing, not just good color.
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> I still think the target audience is regular people who just want to hit print and get a good picture. They not going to go investigating these settings at all.
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> Chris
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