Digital BW, The Print

On Friday 09 December 2005 9:29 am, Paul Roark wrote:
> > ...I think the time is right for open-source
> > color management and profiling tools.  ...
> 
> See http://lprof.sourceforge.net/ ("On August 15, 2005 the LPROF project was
> created in SourceForge.net... LPROF is the only open source ICC profiler
> with a graphical user interface. It can be used to create profiles for
> cameras, scanners and monitors... On August 23 LPROF-1.10 became available
> on SourceForge,net http://sourceforge.net/projects/lprof ...")
> 
> See also http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/OpenIcc  (Open ICC program),
> http://www.color.org/  (The big ICC organization),
> http://www.printondemand.com/MT/archives/001782.html  ("Creo has produced
> Profile Wizard software without restrictions on exchanging profiles ...")

Lots of the pieces seem to be there.  But last I looked, there were
still no instrument drivers.  So you might be able to use manufacturer's
software to read out numeric values, copy them into lprof, and create
profiles that way.  But that's not a very user-friendly experience.

I tried to get specs for my ColorVision Spyder, but when they heard
that anything I produced would be open-source, they lost interest :-(