[Openicc] - CM Framework - Printer Driver - output intent

[Till Kamppeter]

On 06/21/2011 11:26 AM, Jan-Peter Homann wrote:
> Hello Till and all,
> We are currently talking about quite different workflow concepts:
>
>  From my understanding, the user actions in the print dialogue created
> through CPD are specifying, which printer profile is valid for a print job.
>
> This would lead to a two step workflow:
> 1) the user controls via CPD which output intent is embedded into the
> PDF print spool file
> 2) CPD extracts the driver settings from printer ICC profile and
> integrates it as IPP attributes into to CUPS print stream.
>
> As the printer profile is already specifies in step 1), CPD could
> extract the driver settings already in this step.
> Only for the very special case, that the application handles the
> complete colormanagement for the PDF print spool file creation, CPD
> would have to extract the driver settings from the Output intent of the
> incoming PDF file.
>
> For the colormanaged print chain, a workflow, where the application is
> doing the complete colormanagement for the print spool file, we may
> could run in situations, where the user specifies a printer profile in
> the application and a media setting in the print dialogues, which will
> not fit together.
>

The CPD should mark options and/or choices as conflicting with the 
chosen profile if they do not fit it, like a conflict between two option 
settings.

> If we allow workflows, where the application could specify a printer
> profile with embedded driver settings, we would need a mechanism, that
> the application tells CPD to disable the choosers for mediatype and
> quality.
>

Yes as I said, option settings not fitting to a profile should be marked 
conflicting or grayed out.

> So I would recommend to concentrate first on workflows, where the CPD
> media selection for printing is the master for the automatic selection
> of the printer profile.

Or changing individual options automatically removes or changes profiles 
to have a fitting profile (considering profiles as presets). The user 
should be somehow warned if a profile embedded by the application gets 
unselected that way.

    Till