[Openicc] Printing Plans GhostScript / sRGB / ICC

[Graeme Gill]

James Cloos wrote:
> Why shouldn’t they?  The out of box defaults are sane for most users.
> The ability to choose between expensive CMY or inexpensive K for RGB
> gray is clearly a feature demanded by users (using CMY for gray costs
> more than five times as much USD than using K, but gives noticeably
> better results in photographs and the like).

It's print quality driven as much as cost. Text looks better if it's
black only. You will notice certain features an ArgyllCMS that
support this requirement :-)

> The manuacturers of RIP printers have now had, what, twenty years or
> so to figure out what controls the users want and how to present them.

Yes.

> And for cups-based print flows, the only way *to* do those per-job
> overrides is via PPD options.

Yes.

> I just do not understand the complaint....

Neither do I.

Graeme Gill.