Re: Decent results with Gutenprint - the poor man's RIP.
Re: Decent results with Gutenprint - the poor man's RIP.
- Subject: Re: Decent results with Gutenprint - the poor man's RIP.
- From: "edmund ronald" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 01:30:21 +0200
My reviews convey my gut feelings of function and usability, they are
not intended as feature lists.
I believe that Gutenprint is now mature and usable as an RGB driver -
any remaining basic functionality issues in the print engine are
topics for tuning, not reworking.
But then there are the problems of usability, viz - the interface.
This is the Colorsync list so let me discuss my view on color
management as it might fit in the driver: I believe it should be left
out.
Most color-correct photo guys use Photoshop as the color engine, and
print to a local printer via a raw driver by sending the
color-corrected data. This is an easy workflow to implement, the
driver devolves the color management burden on the upstream program.
Which, again, is I believe exactly what you want in any professional
workflow.
And now for ways to so such things - is there some method by which a
user might read in settings files ? Then canned settings - nicely
named- could be provided as starting points to reduce the damage a
novice might do when exposed to the interface. And such settings files
could be passed around between users without any mods to the main
package.
Last, not least, linearisation issues. RIPS have ways of doing this by
reading in a simple chart. I believe this topic, and ink curves might
benefit from input by other members of this list. I don't have enough
knowledge here. I believe however, that Roy Harrington might have
something to contribute ....
Edmund
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