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: Robert Krawitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 21:46:00 -0400
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 02:20:14 +0200
From: "edmund ronald" <email@hidden>
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 ...
Now's the time to try to do something about this, since I'm currently
converting all of the data from C code to XML.
There are already some elements of this, in the Quality setting and
the Image Type setting. Have you taken a look at those? Do you have
any comments?
--
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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