Re: [Printing-architecture] Bye-Bye colord - OR - Poll ICC profiles via IPP for soft proofing

Michael Sweet <[email protected]> Tue, 23 Aug 2022 15:29:05 -0400

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Solomon,

> On Aug 23, 2022, at 11:20 AM, Solomon Peachy <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Aug 23, 2022 at 07:23:18AM -0400, Michael Sweet via Printing-architecture wrote:
>> Right now I have no plans to add explicit support for ICC profiles to
>> PAPPL as the class of printer being supported won't get anything out
>> of it - *no* open source driver provides ICC profiles at this time,
>> label and B&W laser printers won't benefit, and Gutenprint's notion of
>> color management makes using ICC profiles basically useless - too many
>> knobs.
> 
> FWIW, the dye-sublimation printers that Gutenprint supports nearly all
> have a manufacturer-supplied ICC profile, and putting aside the question
> of redistributibility, I would very much like to have a gutenprint-based
> printer application provide said profile to the application on demand,
> and/or automagically apply it to whatever is printed.

Assuming that you could use/bundle the profile, I would rather see Gutenprint use it to convert sRGB or AdobeRGB to the printer's DeviceCMY color space, otherwise the number of clients that take advantage of it will be exceedingly small.

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