Re: Epson: Nice hardware, yucky printer drivers - enough already !
Re: Epson: Nice hardware, yucky printer drivers - enough already !
- Subject: Re: Epson: Nice hardware, yucky printer drivers - enough already !
- From: "edmund ronald" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 02:20:14 +0200
There is very little wrong with the ultimate quality and stability of
Gutenprint as far as I have experienced. However my feeling has always
been that the preset defaults, and actually the settings mechanism
are the weakest part of Gutenprint because one is likely to give up in
frustration before finding the requisite settings one needs. This was
still the case with the versions I looked at last (5.0 ?).
As a professional tester I do know that user rejection of a piece of
software is very fast - anything which doesn't work within the first
hour or so has a good likelihood of being forgotten about. So let's
try and be constructive and remedy this situation.
We have this very powerful piece of software. It's so powerful that
different people can and will will do different things with it. So
maybe we should agree on a few default "scenarios", each corresponding
to a different user persona. I'd suggest "BW, Office, Photo and Pro
Color" as 4 preset scenarios for the RGB driver. Obviously only Pro
Color is of interest to members of this list, it would be the
high-quality mode with color management off -the user will make and
use an application that knows about color-management, but neither user
or application knows about ink curves. I'm not sure what the default
CMYK modes should look like.
So now one needs a nice way to implement these default profiles for
various printers and various papers, while leaving space for overrides
at will - well who ever said that doing things needs to be easy ?
Again, the good news is that if the presets mechanism is well designed
(not in the code) then this superstructure can be added or recast
after the driver itself has been released ...
Edmund
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 1:51 AM, Robert Krawitz <email@hidden> wrote:
> Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 19:46:44 +0200
> From: "edmund ronald" <email@hidden>
>
> I'm a big fan too of letting the user override any setting.
> But give her sane defaults to start with :)
>
> Agreed. Was that a general comment, or are there specific defaults in
> Gutenprint that you believe should be changed (let's get all that out
> on the table while 5.2 is in beta; I don't want to change defaults
> after 5.2 final release!)
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