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Chapter 6 - Developing ColorSync-Supportive Device Drivers

Developing Your ColorSync Supportive Device Driver

Your device driver can implement certain features using the ColorSync Manager to support color matching and its associated processes. This section describes how to tell whether the ColorSync Manager is installed on the system running your device driver.

Then it describes how to implement features and provide a user interface that offers a user control over the settings for these features. You can provide a user interface that allows the user to choose which profile to use for the device your driver supports. The user interface can also allow the user to choose the color-rendering intent and the color-matching quality. Finally, this section describes how to color match images sent to your device driver before sending them to your printer. Many of the tasks that your device driver performs to support the ColorSync Manager can also be performed by other kinds of color-matching applications. These tasks are mentioned here, but not explained in detail. For details, see "Developing ColorSync-Supportive Applications" (page 4-3).

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Subtopics

Determining if the ColorSync Manager Is Available

Interacting With the User

Color Matching an Image to Be Printed