Using a Xerox Docucolor 252 and an Epson Stylus Pro 9900 and I am wondering if there is a way to use Paper / Printer ICC profiles?
I think I might be able to with the Epson using TurboPrint but that software requires GTK+ 2.0 libraries - I have the GTK+ 2,0 compat library installed but the TurboPrint Control and TurboPrint Monitor fail to open.
I am wanting to print from the following apps, Okular (PDFs), Scribus and GIMP.
Any help on that would be great and also, do we have Printer ICC profiling software available which would work creating profiles with a colormunki?
p.s. Scribus is meant to read profiles from /usr/share/color/icc and /home/username/.color/icc but it fails to read them. Is this a Wayland issue ??
Any info and or help on this would be greatly appreciated.
Is there any reason you chose to use CachyOS for your work? Do you value the performance of your system very highly (like with gaming or other computationally intense tasks)?
Do you use KDE?
When it comes to proprietary applications made by business for Linux, Arch is usually not the distro they optimize for, so even their “universal” packages might not work. Rather, it’s usually Ubuntu/Debian & RHEL/Fedora. Arch-based users have to know the workarounds like DistroBox or by compiling libraries from source, often with the AUR.
TurboPrint will work better if you run it on in a DistroBox, as you can just use the .deb or .rpm package for that. To get started with DistroBox, install the podman or docker package (I prefer podman). The containers will be very lightweight either way.
After that you can create and manage a container through the terminal, or you go graphical with DistroShelf or Kontainer (Kontainer looks better in KDE, but I prefer DistroShelf’s experience). These applications will help with graphically installing a .deb package (make sure you choose an Ubuntu or Debian container image in the menu)
Using Cachy as it is a good relatively clean OS. My desktop is KDE which under CachyOS is the first time I have used it as my desktop of choice as other distros implementations of KDE have been flaky for me.
TurboPrint has a Manjaro downloadable installer which is basically a .tar file. Fairly simple and easy to install given their instructions but I wonder if the GTK+ 2,0 requirement and GTK+ 2,0 compat is the stumbling block. Anyway - from my reading, Wayland is still catching up with regards to ICC profiles and although one can use them for monitor calibrations - it would be a boon for Grapics people if we could have ICC’s more easily usable in Printing.
Takes a little to migrate, I migrated a Franchise Digital Printing company from Coral and Quark back in the day to Adobe and over the last 4 to 6 years I have migrated again to open Graphic programs that are cross platform like GIMP and Scribus. I still use PDF’s as a final format for customers and printing but I see no real way to print with colour management from Linux native Apps. I like Okular for Music reading purposes but maybe I have to install a version of Acrobat under WINE for now to get the colour output I require.
The Gutenprint and TurboPrint PPD files allow for the disabling of colour management at printer driver level but in Acrobat, one had the means to use builtin colour management to drive the required output based on stock profiles. Having something like that built in to KDE’s printer dialogue would be a huge win for proofing under Linux allowing for the bypassing of costly Print RIP Servers (which some ironically are based off Linux).
Anyway - I might check in with the TurboPrint and KDE developers and see what comes of it. Just like I am pushing Native Instruments and Arturia Devs into Linux Native versions of their flagship software products (both again which have them running in standalone hardware using Linux ARM).
Regardless of the issues, wiping Windows from my computing has been the best thing I have done and OS-X for me is not a solution. Thanks
Hmmm, If I remember correctly, Ubuntu Studio had colour profile support built-in and a few programs had settings for that too. I think GIMP has colour profile options, if I’m remembering correctly. Anyways, I think Ubuntu Studio might have had a control panel for choosing the profile for the monitor.
Unfortunately, it’s been a VERY long time since I last used Ubuntu Studio linux. But my idea is that maybe you could set up an Ubuntu Studio on an external SSD and use that right before printing to make sure you selected the right colours or to change them somewhere in the chain.
I don’t have this all figured out, I’m just brainstorming I guess.
I work with PNGs, and I rarely print (but I used to), and I remember being happy when I was able to maintain the colours accross the domains. But again, my memory isn’t so strong on this topic. I’m mainly just watching this thread to find out if anybody else has a firm solution. Good Luck either way.