[Openicc] printer, driver, CUPS, PPD, printing GUI, ICC-profiles, colord, Oyranos, taxi....

[Kai-Uwe Behrmann]

Am 18.01.12, 21:35 +0100 schrieb edmund ronald:
> The way we want to go is for Gutenprint is to be completely profile-based
> in the future, ie. every base media type preset for new printers will come
> with a profile.

So you become practical your own profile vendor. Interessting. I did not 
realise such plans exist.

> This means that instead of lengthy manual tuning for a new printer, we will
> quickly determine acceptable base media ink settings and run a profiler to
> get decent colors with those settings. In this way we will be able to bring
> up new printers quickly, we hope.

How do you plan to distribute your virtual hundreds of profiles?

> Indeed we hope that in the future the print pipeline will supply a way to
> convert from sRGB into the printer profile and print, thereby fulfilling
> the needs of Joe User and his compact camera, or the needs of someone
> wanting to print images downloaded from the web,

Great.

> Of course, domain experts, color consultants, and users who wish to have
> fun will be free to tinker and determine better ink settings and make
> better profiles than those we release.

Do you plan to document your procedure and/or tools?

kind regards
Kai-Uwe Behrmann
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developing for colour management 
www.behrmann.name + www.oyranos.org