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
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

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