[cups] Loading an icm file from a ppd file?

[Michael Sweet]

Alan,

> On Oct 10, 2016, at 5:05 PM, Alan Corey <alan01346 at gmail.com> wrote:
> ...
> I know it natively supports PostScript because a year or so ago I
> wrote some simple graphics in Postscript to be sure no application was
> going to scale them and sent them directly to the printer.  I'm not a
> fan of PCL at all.  Yet Hpcups apparently generated a PPD file that
> has PCL in the name:

hpcups is a driver package that converts jobs to a variety of HP raster PDLs, including PCL. And most of the HP printers consume sRGB and internally convert that to the Device-N colorspace used by the printer rather than exposing CMYK/CMYKcm/CMYKcmk/whatever.

What you want is the PS PPD for this printer, which used to be relatively straight-forward to extract from the corresponding Windows driver but not so much these days... :/

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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer