Color-managed printing on Linux with current CUPS: Fact or fiction?
Hi Folks, I have just had a conversation with Kai-Uwe, it appears that the general release CUPS is now capable of doing profile conversions and so, basically if one sets up a print queue properly and writes a profile name into the PPD then conversion to that profile should happen. If by some miracle CUPS treats untagged images as sRGB, then basically it should be possible to print files from *ANY * app correctly if one manages to get the current printer profiled and the profile name into the active PPD and doesn't mess up media settings between prints. Training users to set up a new print queue for each media type and leave the settings alone after printing would mean they would have a nice color-managed system, at least printer-side, provided the profile were shoehorned in. And of course if Gutenprint knew how to install specific purpose printer queues for certain printer/media combos, and supplied profiles, then color would be very good out of the box with those specific media. Is the above fact or fiction? How should it be done on what existing distributions? Edmund
Remind me again what is the reason to use Linux over OS X or Windows besides that is free? Hobby does not count. I have one already. ------ Best Regards, Derek Lambert On Jan 28, 2012, at 1:17 PM, edmund ronald <edmundronald@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Folks,
I have just had a conversation with Kai-Uwe, it appears that the general release CUPS is now capable of doing profile conversions and so, basically if one sets up a print queue properly and writes a profile name into the PPD then conversion to that profile should happen. If by some miracle CUPS treats untagged images as sRGB, then basically it should be possible to print files from *ANY * app correctly if one manages to get the current printer profiled and the profile name into the active PPD and doesn't mess up media settings between prints.
Training users to set up a new print queue for each media type and leave the settings alone after printing would mean they would have a nice color-managed system, at least printer-side, provided the profile were shoehorned in.
And of course if Gutenprint knew how to install specific purpose printer queues for certain printer/media combos, and supplied profiles, then color would be very good out of the box with those specific media.
Is the above fact or fiction? How should it be done on what existing distributions?
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On Jan 28, 2012, at 2:06 PM, Derek Lambert wrote:
Remind me again what is the reason to use Linux over OS X or Windows besides that is free?
Automation, for one. I have colour management for all my printers running on a PandaBoard, you can look up the size of it and the price. A lot of (future) printer intellect (RIPs included) is based on some sort of embedded Linux.
Hobby does not count.
Hobby does count as most of the users are hobbyists, and most of the money comes from amateurs.
I have one already.
How counter-intuitive. -- Iliah Borg ib@pochtar.com
All systems have advantages. Linux offers a way around license issues; it is not that the sample you have is free; frankly, just the time spent installing it costs more than a PC, and in many cases trying to install it will turn your hair gray. But the real advantage is that any clone of the software you may need to make can be made, and given away. For software development that is useful. For printing, running Linux in a VM is a guarantee that your drivers will always print the same whatever the behavior of the host OS. When you have seen colors change every time a new Mac OS is released, you get the point. Edmund On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 8:31 PM, Iliah Borg <ib@pochtar.com> wrote:
On Jan 28, 2012, at 2:06 PM, Derek Lambert wrote:
Remind me again what is the reason to use Linux over OS X or Windows besides that is free?
Automation, for one. I have colour management for all my printers running on a PandaBoard, you can look up the size of it and the price. A lot of (future) printer intellect (RIPs included) is based on some sort of embedded Linux.
Hobby does not count.
Hobby does count as most of the users are hobbyists, and most of the money comes from amateurs.
I have one already.
How counter-intuitive.
-- Iliah Borg ib@pochtar.com
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I don't know much about Linux (that's why I was asking) but it is hard to believe that you can have system as gmg, cgs or efi in Linux for free even if it will take a week to install it and configure it. I would think that it is easy to replace $500 photoshop but not a dedicated $5000 color rip. ------ Best Regards, Derek Lambert On Jan 28, 2012, at 4:04 PM, edmund ronald <edmundronald@gmail.com> wrote:
All systems have advantages.
Linux offers a way around license issues; it is not that the sample you have is free; frankly, just the time spent installing it costs more than a PC, and in many cases trying to install it will turn your hair gray. But the real advantage is that any clone of the software you may need to make can be made, and given away. For software development that is useful.
For printing, running Linux in a VM is a guarantee that your drivers will always print the same whatever the behavior of the host OS. When you have seen colors change every time a new Mac OS is released, you get the point.
Edmund
On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 8:31 PM, Iliah Borg <ib@pochtar.com> wrote:
On Jan 28, 2012, at 2:06 PM, Derek Lambert wrote:
Remind me again what is the reason to use Linux over OS X or Windows besides that is free?
Automation, for one. I have colour management for all my printers running on a PandaBoard, you can look up the size of it and the price. A lot of (future) printer intellect (RIPs included) is based on some sort of embedded Linux.
Hobby does not count.
Hobby does count as most of the users are hobbyists, and most of the money comes from amateurs.
I have one already.
How counter-intuitive.
-- Iliah Borg ib@pochtar.com
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