Re: Building a library of ICC profiles

["Daniel P. Berrange" <dan berrange com>]

On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 11:14:51AM +0000, Richard Hughes wrote:
> On 12 February 2010 10:54, Pedro Côrte-Real <pedro pedrocr net> wrote:
> > Is there any package that collects free (as in speech) ICC profiles? I
> > see that Pascal's PPA has one printer, one camera and two or three
> > displays. Are these just the ones you did yourself Pascal?
> 
> There's http://github.com/hughsie/shared-color-profiles which may be
> of interest to you.
> 
> > I'd be more than happy to add the profiles I've been doing for the
> > printer and monitor to some repository so that users without a
> > calibration instrument can just use a profile from the library. I
> > already have profiles for a Dell U2410 and an Epson R2880 with Glossy
> > Epson paper. I'll be adding more papers to that too.
> 
> I'm not so sure submitting user-generated profiles makes so much
> sense, I mean, your Epson R2880 probably has a quite different
> response to my (hypothetical) Epson R2880.

IIUC, printer profiles will vary on the set (hardware, ink, driver, paper)
so building a library of profiles is quite  large task. You could make it
more managable by initially concentrating on the printer manufacturer's 
own  recommended brand/combination of ink+paper+drivers

Regards,
Daniel
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