On Wednesday 27 August 2008, Kai-Uwe Behrmann wrote: > > This part seems clear: hplip is not CM aware. > > Thats wrong. hplip can use CM by the means of CUPS. > No ICC does not mean no CM. We have to talk explicitely about ICC style > CM in this context or get easily confused. > > > > However most printer models are able to be color calibrated > > > > I have no idea how this would work, and how this would impact a colour > > managed workflow. Would it help to get predictable print results ? > > In the CUPS documentation: > http://www.cups.org/doc-1.1/spm.html#5_1_3 > > HPLIB: > http://hplip.sourceforge.net/tech_docs/man_pages/colorcal.html > > > Is there anything in the answer that would confirm that the drivers > > provide a linear response ? > > kind regards > Kai-Uwe Behrmann Thanks for your feedback. So CM is possible with cups. This means that most printer drivers can get CM for free, albeit not with color profiles, right ? *Sigh* I'm still unclear about this. So I have an ICC managed scanner, and an ICC managed (profiled and calibrated) screen. I am using CM aware applications (Gimp, Digikam, ...) and now I want to print. How do I get a printout that matches (within the physical/CM constraints of course) what I have on screen ? Using cups and a standard printer driver (such as hplip or epson) ? Thank you, Geert Janssens -- Kobalt W.I.T. Web & Information Technology Brusselsesteenweg 152 1850 Grimbergen Tel : +32 479 339 655 Email: info@xxxxxxxxxxxx