Re: Pitch for a device settings tag
Re: Pitch for a device settings tag
- Subject: Re: Pitch for a device settings tag
- From: Henrik Holmegaard <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 19:07:04 +0100
email@hidden wrote:
>Useful in the same way that including driver settings, media type
setting,
>paper and inkset used, etc is helpful in naming an ICC inkjet profile.
>Personally I'd like to see a tag for such data, and standard data
formats for it for
>assorted common device types to make the data as universally useful as
possible.
>For instance, it would be possible for selection of a profile with such
>metadata to automatically set the correct media type, color, and
resolution
>settings in a driver, if one checked the "use settings from profile"
checkbox.
Deep down in the archives there is a thread asking why the dickens
there is no way to write into a profile the device settings for which
it is true. Eventually a tag appeared in ProfileMaker where device
configuration details could be annotated and the profile settings text
file pasted in. But to the best of my knowledge even this is still
proprietary tag in the world of the ICC Specification, though it is not
a proprietary tag which in any way influences color matching.
The documentation level is one thing and the automatic configutation
level is another. Except for monitors which are an all-in-one color
device, metadata which impact device configuration are better treated
apart from the ICC profile. There are many such metadata approaches,
but they are conceptually distinct from the color management system
IMHO. (And I still say the VCGT approach was a good idea, just not for
printers -:).)
Thanks,
Henrik
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