Color adjustment

Johan Bengtsson elijah at chalmers.se
Thu Mar 14 01:02:53 PDT 2013


On 03/13/2013 06:37 PM, Helge Blischke wrote:
> Johan Bengtsson wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> Is there some way to (from the print-server) adjust the color
>> reproduction on the printers? I'm aware of the cupsICCProfile ppd
>> statement, but I guess it will not work so well in a cross-plattform
>> environmment like ours. We have linux, mac & windows clients, some of
>> them printing through samba.
>>
>> They all get their ppd:s from the server.
>>
>> We don't use foomatic, all printers are postscript capable.
>>
>> We want to buy a certain printer model, but one group of users are
>> complaining that the color reproduction is cold/"blueish". I suppose the
>> "proper" way of fixing this would be applying an ICC (?) profile
>> on the client-computers, but that is not possble here, too much work,
>> clueless users, a myriad of hardware & applications etc.
>>
>> Would it be possible to apply a JobPatch from the ppd-file that adjusts
>> the colors? Has anybody here done that? Or is there some other way?
>>
>> -Johan Bengtsson
> 
> You might generate a CRD (Color Rendering Dictionary) from a suitable ICC 
> profile using the utilities of littlecms and use that in a JobPatchFile. 
> Note that you need to provide a CRD for each color model your ptinter 
> supports (except /DeviceGray, presumably).

Thank you for pointing me in the right direction, will try that!:-)

-Johan Bengtsson





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