[Digikam-users] Printers with full Color Management

[Milan Knížek]

Geert Janssens píše v So 29. 08. 2009 v 10:47 +0200:
> On Friday 28 August 2009, Caspar Maessen wrote:
> > Op vrijdag 28 augustus 2009, schreef Milan Knížek:
> >   > NB the profiles, which were prepared for MS Windows or Mac OS, are of
> >   > no use in linux.
> >
> > Is this true?
> >
> This seems odd to me as well. Can you give more details about this ?

The only chance for using the profiles prepared for the vendor's driver
for MS Windows would be, if the vendor created a driver also for linux
(with the same behaviour) or if the existing linux driver imitated the
original MS Windows driver pretty well.

I use EPSON printer and EPSON does not provide linux drivers. Gutenprint
is told to be actually better than the original MS Windows driver (which
of course means, that it behaves differently).

Have a look also here:
http://jcornuz.wordpress.com/2007/12/06/printing-3-printer-color-management/

In other words, when you find an ICC profile on the internet, you also
need to know the circumstances, which existed for its preparation. E.g.
camera icc profile prepared for Adobe Lightroom will most probably
provide different colours in UFRaw. Not saying worse or better, but
different. But yet - if you do not have anything better and are happy
with the result, do not worry.

The only lucky exception are the display icc profiles. You can use tools
to calibrate the display in MS Windows and then use this icc profile in
linux. The reason is that it seems that the display driver works the
same. If your calibration tool is supported by argyllcms, you can check
yourself (this great pack of cms tools work on linux and MS Windows,
too).

hope this helps.

regards

Milan Knizek
knizek (dot) confy (at) volny (dot) cz
http://www.milan-knizek.net - About linux and photography (Czech
language only)