Hello all, as stated in the manual: """ It is important to note that ICC profiles provided by the paper and/or printer manufacturers cannot be used on GNU/Linux as they depend on the printer drivers. The darktable print module is using CUPS <http://www.cups.org/> and there is no ready-to-use ICC profiles for this driver. """
So, does this mean that producing high-quality prints on Linux is entirely impossible? In particular, I have two questions regarding the statement: 1. I am not sure wether I understand the explanation correctly. How exactly do the ICC profiles provided by paper manufacturers depend on the printer driver? Does the printer driver affect the printer's color rendition, so that the printer's color space when used with cups differs from the color space when used with the proprietary driver on windows? 2. Is there any way to get properly color-managed prints with fine-art papers on Linux (with DT)? Would I have buy a colorimeter/spectrometer and profile it myself? Thank you, Bjoern ___________________________________________________________________________ darktable developer mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to darktable-dev+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org
