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

[Helge Blischke]

> Am 11.10.2016 um 14:31 schrieb Michael Sweet <msweet at apple.com>:
> 
> 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... :/
> 
> _________________________________________________________
> Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer
> 

The only filters from the cups-filters package that support ICC profiles are the
xxxtoraster and rastertopdf filters. They by default try to call colors to choose the appropriate 
profile but allow the *cupsICCProfile PPD keyword as a fallback.

Helge