[Openicc] Epson HTM CUPS drivers

[Robert Krawitz]

On Tue, 8 Feb 2011 03:49:49 +0100, edmund ronald wrote:
> 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.

There's nothing preventing us from generating locked down PPD files
for Gutenprint.  The "debate" is more how best to do it than whether
to, and right now it looks like the settings file, as Edmund noted, is
the way we're going to go.  Clearly the full range of Gutenprint
options isn't what most people want, but we have some users doing some
very oddball things with rather unusual "inks".

> 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.