[Openicc] Linux CM ideology .. Linux CM proposal

[edmund ronald]

Ok, so a consumer will actually *need* a dozen profiles for his single
printer, an enthusiast will have a few dozen, and then someone like
Robert or even a consultant like me might have some hundreds on a
special test installation.

We need to separate the install case where we search for an archived
or online profile/settings (proset) pack, retrieve a decent match and
install one or more candidates if no exact match is found, and the use
case where these prosets are already in the system, and it is
necessary to associate one with a print queue.

My feeling is that having a different queue per proset might be a
smart way to do things, but of course no one wants a hundred queues
hanging around CUPS, so there needs to be a way to vamoose them and
bring them back. When I look at CUPS these days I can see 6 or so
queues and it drives me crazy, and that's just random test stuff.

I think we don't have an algorithmic problem here, we know how to do
everything we need, but the interface may need a few tries to get
right.

Edmund

Edmund

On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 10:38 PM, Chris Murphy <lists at colorremedies.com> wrote:
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> On Feb 8, 2011, at 7:24 AM, Graeme Gill wrote:
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>> Robert Krawitz wrote:
>>> There could well be a lot of profiles on the system: a reasonable
>>> combination of paper types and resolutions for a lot of printers
>>> (assuming that we were to crowdsource and bundle a lot of profiles
>>> with Gutenprint, or offer a gutenprint-profiles package).  I'm not
>>> sure exactly how many it would work out to be, but 10 different paper
>>> types at, say, 3 or 4 resolutions each multiplied by however many
>>> classes of printers we have.
>>
>> Right, but how many would be installed (ie. the "current"
>> profile for a device), as opposed to being on disk somewhere,
>> where the user might choose to install them ?
>>
>> (And I'm not convinced about your numbers. Even when we had
>> someone making profiles as a full time job, we didn't end
>> up with more than a handful to a dozen of profiles per device.
>> We found that the only practical way of covering a large number of
>> combinations of ink/paper/settings is actually calibration + a smaller
>> number of profiles.)
>
> Epson drivers typically come with a dozen profiles per printer.
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> Chris Murphy
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