[Openicc] Printing Plans GhostScript

[Kai-Uwe Behrmann]

Am 01.03.2011 23:52, schrieb Gerhard Fuernkranz:
> Am 01.03.2011 22:14, schrieb Kai-Uwe Behrmann:
>> Retargeting is a special feature. It makes sense to retarget
>> automatical if the DeviceXXX color space does not match. For instance
>> a DeviceCMYK PDF sent to a DeviceRGB device should be converted using
>> the OutputIntent. The same for displaying DeviceCMYK on the screen.
>> This was mentioned previously here on list. That seems easy to agree
>> about.
>>
>> A DeviceRGB sent to a RGB device should not be changed automatical IMO.
> Well, I'm not sure whether users would understand why their untagged
> sRGB documents are printed nicely on a CMYK printer, while the same
> documents are printed with wrong colors on a printer which happens to
> have a RGB ProcessColorModel, although they have profiled the RGB
> printer as well.

agreed

Please let me correct my sentence:
A DeviceRGB + OutputIntent sent to a RGB device should not be changed
automatical IMO.

And sorry for the confusion.

> The issue of interest is actually how the DeviceXXX colors _in the
> document_ should be interpreted, and I do not see why this
> interpretation should depend on the ProcessColorModel the printer
> happens to have. I don't think that users would like to see a different
> behavior when they submit the same print job a) to a CMYK printer and b)
> to an RGB printer - for them both are just printers.

kind regards,
Kai-Uwe