[cups] Print with ICC-profile from command line, using lpr / OSX. Impossible?

[Michael Sweet]

Erik,

Sadly, no.  The device profile is embedded in the PDF created by an OS X application (or the pstopdf filter) - PDFs submitted directly use the default color profile from the PPD (using the various options to pick the profile) *or* the hand-off space specified by the APDefaultCustomColorMatchingProfile keyword (GenericRGB, sRGB (default), or AdobeRGB).

There are a lot of good reasons why this is so (not the least of which is security) and we have no plans to change it.


> On Dec 15, 2015, at 11:11 AM, Erik Wåhlström <erik at erikwahlstrom.se> wrote:
> 
> Dear Cups User Group.
> 
> I have a rather simple setup which have generated countless hours of trying
> to figure it out.
> 
> OSX 10.11.2
> Custom ICC-profile for the printer.
> 
> My wish is to simply print a file with color-correction turned on from the
> command line.
> 
> We've tried every combination of 'lpr' and ColorSync-settings, but it lpr
> just don't seem to use colorsync at all. We have also tried modifying the
> printer PPD, to use our custom ICC-profile, to no avail.
> 
> Is there another way to print from the command line using something else
> than 'LPR'?
> 
> Best wishes,
> Erik
> 
> 
> Erik Wåhlström | +46 (0) 702 34 24 94 | erikwahlstrom.se
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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer