[Openicc] Synchronizing printer driver settings and printer profiles

[Robert Krawitz]

On Thu, 12 Jan 2012 12:58:55 +0000, Richard Hughes wrote:
> On 11 January 2012 15:45, Jan-Peter Homann <homann at colormanagement.de> wrote:
>> E.g. would it possible, that e.g. a vendor for inkjet media could create a
>> set of an ICC-profile and a driver setting, which he offers for download
>> from his website, and which the enduser can import into colord ?
>
> I think that's too complicated. Lets say in an ideal world, the
> printer vendor cares about providing some good ICC profiles with their
> hardware. For example, Epson have two .icc profiles for a model, one
> for glossy paper, one for plain paper. If they include the following
> metadata in the ICC profile DICT tag:

Remember that printers will behave differently with different drivers.
Epson OEM drivers behave very differently from Gutenprint.
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