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

[edmund ronald]

linearisation by means of instruments and  fine tuning by means of
profiling tools appears easier than the lengthy manual procedures now
employed to bring up a new printer.

I will make base profiles myself for vendor papers using XY scanning
spectros, and we assume many more profiles will be crowdsourced.
Printing should be decent if not perfect with a paper similar to one
already profiled.

Procedures will be documented.

Edmund



On 1/19/12, Kai-Uwe Behrmann <ku.b at gmx.de> wrote:
> 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
> --
> developing for colour management
> www.behrmann.name + www.oyranos.org
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