Edmund,
The ICC « system » *is* the way it is because no one bothered that it would
different. Remember Microsoft ICM? It is still shipped with every versions of
Windows and uses “dynamic” gamut mapping, to the best of my knowledge.
Everybody was in awe when it came out but no one bothered to support it.
/ Roger
From: argyllcms-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <argyllcms-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf
Of edmund ronald
Sent: Monday, May 11, 2020 10:22 AM
To: argyllcms@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [argyllcms] Re: Gamut mapping?
Samuel,
In the ICC workflow, nobody is asking the printer to make a decision *on gamut
mapping*, and the same object gets printed the same anywhere it is found in an
image; that's the whole point. With an adaptive workflow, if you crop a print
to eliminate a saturated part of the image,eg there are two models in two
dresses and you crop one out, Bang! your gamut transform has changed and the
crop would print differently.
The ICC workflow prevents such issues from occurring by enforcing a one-size
fits all model. Which is convenient in an industrial setting but does not
appeal to artists who are trying to innovate. And in fact if you want to do art
with your inkjet printer, you can do very well by using much warmer monitor
settings, incandescents to examine prints, and working directly in
printer-gamut space rather than a "standard" sRGB or Adobe RGB for retouch.
Artists and industrial practitioners do not have identical needs.
Edmund
On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 9:48 AM Samuel Chia <inksandpaper@xxxxxxxxx
<mailto:inksandpaper@xxxxxxxxx> > wrote:
edmund ronald wrote:
It took me a long time to understand *why* the ICC workflow is set up to
be non adaptive by default. Thing is, the ICC workflow was designed for
print media at the base, and one wants the output to be perfectly
predictable, and also, a set of pictures of the same objects made at
different times when bunched together should always match.
It took me a long time to understand *why* the ICC workflow is set up to
be non adaptive by default. Thing is, the ICC workflow was designed for
print media at the base, and one wants the output to be perfectly
predictable, and also, a set of pictures of the same objects made at
different times when bunched together should always match.