[Openicc] Gutenprint mission as Linux moves towards color managed workflows

[Michael Sweet]

Edmund,

On May 13, 2012, at 5:45 PM, edmund ronald wrote:
> Mike, 
> 
>  I have a question, if I have a queue which is color-management=off, and I send someone else the PPD with all the ink params etc, he still needs to do the lpadmin thing or equivalent, or there is a way to do it so that the PPD also contains this option? 

The lpadmin command in question does not set a PPD DefaultKeyword line, so you'd need both the PPD and the lpadmin command.

If this is exposed as a PPD keyword (not a good idea since PPDs are deprecated in CUPS 1.6 - stick with an attribute) use the "OP" (OpenPrinting) prefix on the name.

> 
> Edmund
> 
> On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 2:31 AM, Till Kamppeter <till.kamppeter at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 05/14/2012 02:20 AM, Michael Sweet wrote:
> 
> All you'd need to do is:
> 
>        lpadmin -p printer -o color-management-default=false
> 
> to set the default for the queue.
> 
> That said, please use a prefixed attribute name for this (e.g. org.linuxfoundation.color-management)...
> 
> Mike, is "color-management" the standard option name in upstream CUPS/Mac OS X? Then I will take the same name in cups-filters/ghostscript/foomatic-filters to have a standard. This way software available for both Linux and Mac OS X, like Gutenprint does not need to differentiate.
> 
> So this means that for per-job suppression of color management one does "lpr -o color-management=false"?
> 
>   Till
> 
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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer, PWG Chair

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