[Openicc] What is exactly needed: Embedded Profile in CUPS raster !!

[edmund ronald]

On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 12:11 AM, Alastair M. Robinson <
blackfive at fakenhamweb.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi,
>
>
> On 02/06/11 21:59, Michael Sweet wrote:
>
>  I am very concerned that everyone seems to be focusing on Gutenprint as an
>> example of a typical driver.
>>  It is most certainly not because it provides a HUGE number of settings
>>
> that are not provided by a typical driver,
>
>> and most of those settings essentially control the printer (device)
>> configuration and calibration.
>> Automatic profile selection works just fine for the settings ordinary
>> users are likely to tweak,
>> primarily color mode, media type, and print quality/resolution (thus the
>> defaults used for cupsICCProfile).
>>
>
> OK - instead of Gutenprint, consider the Epson Windows driver for my R285.
>  There are 11 different types of media, and four quality settings, so 44
> combinations.  Some of those combinations are nonsensical of course, but
> realistically we're not going to have profiles for even the 11 different
> media types, let alone each combination of media type and quality.  My
> concern is how transparent the selection of a profile will be, and how the
> user will be informed of whether or not a profile exists for a particular
> combination.
>
>
>  Um, perhaps you missed this, but if you have two different kinds of
>> "glossy" media you give then
>> two different names. Aside from the custom option support in CUPS, a
>> profiling application that
>> updates the PPD file to list additional/different profiles could also
>> inject alternate media
>> types matching what was actually used.
>>
>
> Yes, agreed - I'd love to see the ability to add extra media types to the
> PPD - it would go a long way towards solving the problem.  However, the
> overriding attitude on this list so far has been that the PPD is owned by
> the package management system and is not up for modification. (I pointed out
> a week or so back that this is not the case for the "live" PPDs in
> /etc/cups/ppd - but if anyone even saw it, it wasn't acknowledged.)


Yes, yes, the live PPDs are owned in the system; but there is a case for
"zombie" PPDs that are moddable but held in reserve.

Edmund

>
>
>  With two different names you never have a one-to-many  relationship
>>
>
> I do, actually, because I sometimes need to use different black generation
> settings for different types of job, but as Richard pointed out, I'm not a
> typical user and very few people will share that need.
>
>
>  I think having a named preset that selects both the driver settings and
>> profile is a compelling solution.
>>
>
> It is indeed, and it's precisely what I implemented in PhotoPrint 5 years
> ago.  I'm just nervous about trying to automatically select a suitable
> profile for an arbitrary bundle of options without any user-visible
> feedback.  I have trouble imagining how it could work - and more importantly
> how as a user I can have any *confidence* that it'll work - without shipping
> a profile for every possible permutation of qualifiers.
>
>
> All the best
> --
> Alastair M. Robinson
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