Re: Re. inkjets: An open letter... Gutenprint and CUPS
Re: Re. inkjets: An open letter... Gutenprint and CUPS
- Subject: Re: Re. inkjets: An open letter... Gutenprint and CUPS
- From: "edmund ronald" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 21:33:30 +0200
Jan Peter - you need to be a bit clearer, maybe less philosophy and
more explanation of the technical terms - my American is not that good
(I am from Great Britain and not from the US), and so I have trouble
in understanding what you mean.
Edmund
On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 4:21 PM, Jan-Peter Homann
<email@hidden> wrote:
> Hello Robert, hello list
> As a user, i want to have the option to have control slug right on the print
> out, which shows as text line what colormanagement actions has happened to
> print data from the printing application, the OS / printer spooler and the
> printer driver.
>
> being not a developer I would desscribe it as following:
> - The application generates meta-data about the colormanagement-settings
> during printing and embedds into the spool-data
> - if the OS or the spooler do any colormanagement tasks, they will also be
> embedded into the meta-data
> - the printer driver adds at least the basic driver settings (media,
> resolution, dithering linearization-file) and prints all together with the
> final motive on the print out.
>
> Especially in Environments which are allowing colormanagement for the print
> chain on application level, OS-level and output-level (printer driver or
> RIP) such control slug is - in my eyes - a key component to for transparent
> and predictable colormanagement in the printing chain.
>
> Concerning e.g. Mac OSX, Adobe Creative Suite and several printer drivers,
> it is today often impossible to understand and to predict what happens in
> the printing chain concerning color management.
> Giants like Apple, Adobe Canon, Epson and HP which really have the
> ressources to analyze and fix such problems are not able to deliver
> solutions.
>
> If we would have a working solution with CUPS and Gutenprint, this would be
> a big step forward.
>
> Regards
> Jan-Peter
>
>
>
> Robert Krawitz wrote:
>>
>> Question to the Gutenprint team:
>> How much work would it be to implement in Gutenprint the possibility to
>> print a control slug containing the described meta-information for the
>> colormanagement applied to the printing data.
>>
>> I don't quite understand exactly what this control slug would consist
>> of. Do you expect it to be embedded in the printer output (in which
>> case it would have to be done in a way that's compatible with the
>> particular printer), in the CUPS log file (in which case it wouldn't
>> be that difficult -- as long as CUPS passed it in in the first place),
>> or somewhere else?
>>
>> Do You think it is possible to implement in CUPS the meta-data concept ?
>>
>> I can't say. You'd need to ask Mike Sweet (he may be subscribed to
>> the list).
>>
>>
>
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