help installing ICC profile

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Mar 10, 2006
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I got a custom ICC profile from a printing company. I put it in the drivers/color subdirectory where the other ICC profiles are. When I use print with preview in PS, is is not one of the profile choices. Can anyone help?

Thanks,

Peter
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m.golner
Mar 10, 2006
peter wrote:
I got a custom ICC profile from a printing company. I put it in the drivers/color subdirectory where the other ICC profiles are. When I use print with preview in PS, is is not one of the profile choices. Can anyone help?

Thanks,

Peter
An icc profile has an internal name, which doesn’t have to be the same as the filename. The internal name is what is displayed in PS profile lists (Print with Preview, etc).

Use this free utility (Andrew Shepherd’s icc Toolkit) to find the internal name. Perhaps someone else knows of another way.

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Waldo
Mar 10, 2006
peter wrote:
I got a custom ICC profile from a printing company. I put it in the drivers/color subdirectory where the other ICC profiles are. When I use print with preview in PS, is is not one of the profile choices. Can anyone help?

Thanks,

Peter

Maybe your image is RGB and the profile is for CMYK. Try converting to CMYK and see if the profile is available when printing.

Waldo
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peter
Mar 10, 2006
Thanks, Mike, that worked well. Now the problem is when I print the image with the profile, it prints in grayscale. Then when I go back to print another image, I notice the profile has been switched to "working dot gain – 20%". I did it several times and it happened every time. Any thoughts on this?

Thanks again,

Peter
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m.golner
Mar 11, 2006
peter wrote:
Thanks, Mike, that worked well. Now the problem is when I print the image with the profile, it prints in grayscale. Then when I go back to print another image, I notice the profile has been switched to "working dot gain – 20%". I did it several times and it happened every time. Any thoughts on this?

Thanks again,

Peter
Hi Peter,

Glad it worked. For your current problem, I really don’t know what it is, but would suggest you try a couple of things. First, look at your color settings, under the ‘Edit’ menu. Click the Advanced checkbox to see everything. Second, try looking at your ‘printed output’ on your screen, using soft proofing. Do View > Proof Setup > Custom & play around. Ctrl-Y toggles the proofing on/off. Check the title bar of your image (toggle ‘F’ key if there’s no title bar) to see the proof ‘state’. Finally, in ‘Print with Preview’, check the ‘Show More Options’ checkbox, select ‘Color Management’ from the dropdown box, in ‘Source Space’, click the ‘Document’ radio button, then see what’s showing below.

Sorry I can’t be more specific on what to do. BTW, what Operating System and PS version are you using? Windows (I assumed) or Mac?

A final thought: Just to keep the list of profiles less messy, I created a new folder (Windows XP)
c:\windows\system32\spool\drivers\color-disabled. It shows in Explorer right below the …drivers\color folder, where all the profiles live. I just moved the ones I don’t use to the color-disabled folder, just to clean up the list I get in Photoshop. Of course those that are Photoshop ‘internal’ profiles (such as 20% dot gain) you can’t dump. Oh well.

Good luck in finding the cause of this.

Mike
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peter
Mar 11, 2006
Cool, Mike. I can’t try your suggestions until Monday at work. I really appreciate your help with these problems. I am new to this color profiling stuff but need to get it figured out. I am using Windows XP. That’s a good idea to create a folder for disabled profiles. I’ll let you know how it all works out.

Thanks again,

Peter
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peter
Mar 11, 2006
Cool, Mike. I can’t try your suggestions until Monday at work. I really appreciate your help with these problems. I am new to this color profiling stuff but need to get it figured out. I am using Windows XP. That’s a good idea to create a folder for disabled profiles. I’ll let you know how it all works out.

Thanks again,

Peter
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peter
Mar 16, 2006
The solution which worked for me was to use the profile in my printer properties, not in Photoshop. Still would like to know why it doesn’t work in Photoshop, but at least I got it working.

Thanks,

Peter
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Photoshop user
Mar 16, 2006
On 2006-03-16 02:28:24 +0100, "peter" said:

The solution which worked for me was to use the profile in my printer properties, not in Photoshop. Still would like to know why it doesn’t work in Photoshop, but at least I got it working.

Thanks,

Peter

Try the Color Settings. You can ‘Load’ a ICC profile there. Edit > Color Settings (Windows) or Photoshop > Color Settings (Mac OS) Kind regards,

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