ICC profiles lost after PS upgrade?

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James Gifford
Dec 5, 2003
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Hi –

First I had PS6. Then I added an Epson 2200. Then I upgraded to PS7, in a separate folder. After verifying that everthing was working, I uninstalled PS6 and deleted its folder tree.

Everything has been fine except when I went to print an image using the printer’s ICC profile – the print came out with a pronounced greenish and darkish cast, very much like what I’ve seen when there’s an ICC mismatch. I double-checked everything and tried again – same result.

I’ve verified the CMYK values in the skin tones of the image, and it prints fine using the "Color Enhance" setting, so there doesn’t appear to be any fault in the image itself.

The Epson ICC files are still in place in the printer driver folder, down under \WINNT.

Did I somehow putz Photoshop’s ability to manage the printer color by removing PS6? Should I uninstall the Epson driver and utilities and reinstall it?

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bhilton665
Dec 5, 2003
From: James Gifford

First I had PS6. Then I added an Epson 2200. Then I upgraded to PS7, in a separate folder. After verifying that everthing was working, I uninstalled PS6 and deleted its folder tree.

Everything has been fine except when I went to print an image using the printer’s ICC profile – the print came out with a pronounced greenish and darkish cast, very much like what I’ve seen when there’s an ICC mismatch. I double-checked everything and tried again – same result.
The Epson ICC files are still in place in the printer driver folder, down under \WINNT.

Did I somehow putz Photoshop’s ability to manage the printer color by removing PS6? Should I uninstall the Epson driver and utilities and reinstall it?

The printer ICC files should be separate from Photoshop, the exact folder depending on your OS (on XP it’s WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\SPOOL\DRIVERS\COLOR for example), and shouldn’t be affected by removing Photoshop.

You can re-install the separate 2200 ICC profiles for each paper (instead of the composite profile which has these bundled into one file that you can’t soft proof from) off the install disk without re-installing the rest of the printer driver software, if you want to try that route first.

I would probably just assume something (maybe a shared file) got munged when you removed 6 and re-install the printer software if loading the separate ICC profiles doesn’t do the trick.

Bill
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James Gifford
Dec 5, 2003
Bill Hilton wrote:
Did I somehow putz Photoshop’s ability to manage the printer color by removing PS6? Should I uninstall the Epson driver and utilities and reinstall it?

The printer ICC files should be separate from Photoshop, the exact folder depending on your OS (on XP it’s WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\SPOOL\DRIVERS\COLOR for example), and shouldn’t be affected by removing Photoshop.

That’s it; they’re there.

You can re-install the separate 2200 ICC profiles for each paper (instead of the composite profile which has these bundled into one file that you can’t soft proof from) off the install disk without re-installing the rest of the printer driver software, if you want to try that route first.

I have separate .icm files and can select them as RGB color spaces in PS7 – is that what you mean? I didn’t do anything fancy, just ran the 2200 install. (I’ve only had it a couple of weeks and haven’t done a lot of tweaking yet.)

I would probably just assume something (maybe a shared file) got munged when you removed 6 and re-install the printer software if loading the separate ICC profiles doesn’t do the trick.

I’ll try removing and installing the driver and see if that fixes it. Thanks.

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