[Gimp-user] Fwd: print drivers

[ugajin talktalk net]

 Reply;

My mistake, I hit reply without checking


Try pasting https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/87167851/gimp-driver.png into the browser address bar.

File Open Behaviour > Ask what to do; is set in Preferences > Color Management

 

 Yes they are driver options, but I can use custom printer profiles with other applications e.g. even 
printing from Firefox.

Driver options are dependent upon the printer used. What are you using?

Thanks

-A




Original message and your reply:

On  12.10.2013 at 11:47 A.M., ugajin wrote: 
> I am running Mac OSX v10.6.8 (Snow Leopard) 
>
> I wish to find a suitable (open source if possible) application to print high end image files. 
> I have both Gimp v2.8.4 and Scribus v1.4.3 installed, but I cannot find a way to apply output icc profiles 
> for either of these applications. 
 
In GIMP is see two ways: 
 
Image/Mode/Convert to Color Profile... lets you apply a color profile 
to your image (recalculates the color values of the pixels to make 
the image look the same with the new profile, considering the 
rendering intent). Note, that your image is connected to that color 
profile then - to avoid restricting your possibilities you should 
keep a device-independent color profile, like sRGB or AdobeRGB etc 
and thus not overwrite your file with the converted version. 
 
The safe way: 
On OSX you can assign a color profile to your printer with ColorSync. It's shipped with OS X and you find it 
in Applications/Utilities. 
 
After that in GIMP: 
Normally this should be enough and after printing the file from GIMP 
it should look as expected. 
 
For soft proofing: 
In the menu GIMP/Preferences/Color Management enter your profile in the 
field 'Print Simulation Profile' and choose a suitable Softproof rendering intent. For softproofing on the 
screen go to 'View/Display filters...', add 'Color proof' to the right list. In the field 'Profile' 
in the lower part of the dialog you can choose your printer profile 
then and set a suitable Rendering intent. (Anyway I haven't seen 
the values from the Preferences dialog used as default here - I don't 
know whether this is intentional). 
 
Kind regards, 
 
Sven 




My reply and yours:


-----Original Message-----
From: scl <scl gplus gmail com>
To: ugajin talktalk net
Sent: Sun, 13 Oct 2013 16:11
Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] print drivers


On  13.10.2013 at 04:28 P.M., ugajin wrote: 
 
> Thanks for your detailed explanation. 
You're welcome ;-) 
 
> You can set Colour Management policy in Preferences for File Open behaviour 
> Ask what to do - lets you assign a profile on opening a file. 
Where do you see this? I checked back with GIMP 2.8.4 and only saw the 
options 'Keep embedded profile' and 'Convert to RGB workspace'. 
Both are for the cases you open a file which already has a profile. 
 
> Also, Image/Mode/ has two options; Assign and Convert 
The 'Assign' function is for scenarios where the file comes without 
any color profile information and you want to prepare it for a 
color management workflow. For instance if you have an image from 
the web you can often assume that it is in sRGB color space and 
thus you assign the sRGB color profile to it. 
 
> However, I did not (I think) make the issue clear. 
> In the printer dialogue options, I am able to select any of the bundled 
> printer icc profiles. 
> But I want to use custom profiles for non OEM media and to switch colour 
> management to OSX. 
> The driver lets me select the following: 
> ColorSetting - Off (No ColorAdjustment) - I believe this switches 
> management from printer to OSX? 
> ColorMatching -  is either Vendor Color Matching or ColorSync Matching 
> Vendor Color Matching with Color Setting Off could disable colour 
> management ? 
> I would like to switch colour management off in order to make custom icc 
> profiles 
> ColorSync Matching could switch colour management from printer to OSX 
> However in CustomColorMatchingProfile there are only 4 options; None, 
> sRGB, Adobe RGB and  Generic RGB 
> There is no option to select profile from disk! 
 
In the printer dialog in GIMP/OSX I don't see neither something related 
to color management nor the options you mention. 
Could it be they are printer driver options? In this case you would 
surely have more luck if you search the web for manufacturer manuals, 
forums or contact the manufacturer directly. 
 
> Here is link to screen grab of driver window 
> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/87167851/gimp-driver.png 
> <http://https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/87167851/gimp-driver.png> 
I'm sorry to say that I got error 404 ;-( 
 
> I am grateful for the info on Soft proofing - I was searching for that. 
Nice that I could help you at least a bit ;-) 
 
You'll surely have more luck if you post directly to the mailing list as 
it increases the chance to find somebody who can help you with your 
issue. Also telling the manufacturer and model name of your printer 
would help. 
 
Kind regards, 
 
Sven