Printer driver UI [proposal]

[Mike Sweet]

Robert L Krawitz wrote:
>    Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 12:34:07 -0500
>    From: Michael Sweet <mike@easysw.com>
> 
>    However, to comment specifically on your example - it would be
>    impossible to accurately preview the results of changing a color
>    channel curve without having a colorimetric (e.g. ICC) profile for
>    the output device, at which point such curves are probably not
>    needed anyways...
> 
> As an example of how I think something like this could be useful:
> consider a photographer using a hextone inkset, which is usually
> black, warm and cool versions of midtone grays, and a light gray.  She
> would profile her combination of paper, ink, printer, and resolution,
> and then use a slider to control the degree of warmth of the output.

However, with this example there is no way to generate an accurate
preview image without knowing the relationship (i.e. profile) between
the inks, media, and screen.

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