Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 23:48:18 +0100
From: "edmund ronald" <email@hidden>
This is a problem which gets discussed and discussed. The
Gutenprint guys have created a functionnally excellent object, but
they don't want to go to the bother of exposing the customisation
settings in a way which the CMS community can deal with, partly
because they don't quite understand what we need. Although I guess
we could put a bounty on the features, or have somebody hire a
programmer to add them - for a large enterprise running proofers it
might make economic sense to do so.
If someone's seriously interested in doing this, I'm happy to discuss
this -- I don't have time to do it myself, but I'd like to see it
coordinated with the rest of the project.
> Running Gutenprint on a Mac does let you do both - it is a RIP sort of
> printer driver along with many drop-down options that do let you set
> densities and ink limits. The big problem is no one has publicly posted
> any settings that are proven to work in any particular combination; and
> the fathers of Gutenprint are not savvy in color managed printing
> workflow. I truly wish they were, as that could make that driver a
> powerful and still free, alternative to commercial RIPs, as it's built
> into OSX.4 as an Apple default. The combinations of settings is just
> astronomical.
It's certainly true that we don't have a whole lot of color management
expertise. Until recently, there hasn't been a whole lot of color
management available on Linux (lcms is starting to become more
widespread), and there aren't a lot of applications with color
management available. So this is all a bit of a learning experience
for us...
--
Robert Krawitz <email@hidden>
Tall Clubs International -- http://www.tall.org/ or 1-888-IM-TALL-2
Member of the League for Programming Freedom -- mail email@hidden
Project lead for Gutenprint -- http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net
"Linux doesn't dictate how I work, I dictate how Linux works."
--Eric Crampton
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