[Openicc] Epson HTM CUPS drivers

[edmund ronald]

Thing is, with settings files we let can users tune their printers to
do some oddball stuff, eg. print with some third party ink system on
T-shirts, then they export their settings and others can have the
benefit of their bedroom-lab hours. In this way we hope that providing
full tunability to the hacking community will have positive spin-offs
for the general users.

And last, not least, we hope that with the help of power-users we will
be able to bring up new printers faster, as much of the tuning can be
done automatically by profiling where before everything was done by
hand.

Edmund

On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 4:03 AM, Robert Krawitz <rlk at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> 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.
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