[Openicc] - CM Framework - Printer Driver -

Till Kamppeter till.kamppeter at gmail.com
Tue Jun 21 08:35:04 PDT 2011


On 06/21/2011 05:30 PM, Jan-Peter Homann wrote:
> Hello Richard,
> I would recommend to embed the driver informations into CUPS raster file
> as IPP attribute. like Till described it for CPD.
>
> we may should also consider to register at the ICC a Metdata Type for
> Gutenprint driver settings.
>
> I will ask at the ICC about the necessary steps, that we are prepared to
> do in near future.

You should ask for a Metadata type for general driver settings. This 
could simply be an ASCII string with undetermined length. It then can 
contain the settings as "opt1=choice1 opt2=choice2 ...". Note that not 
only Gutenprint but also other printer drivers can benefit from this.

    Till



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