In-house ICC profile not recognized.

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Nassive_Nembhard
Jul 6, 2004
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Good Afternoon,

I am running Photoshop CS on a Windows 2000 Professionl OS.

I created a paper profile for my RIP, as well as for the paper space profile option, located in the print with preview menu. The problem is the ICC profile is not being recognized. Even when I right-click on the profile and load it so the OS can acknowledge it as an active profile, I still cannot see it in the drop down menu for paper profiles amoung the other ICC profiles listed.

I should also mention that it worked before, it came up in the list of ICC profiles in that menu. Though once I shut down the machine and boot up again, it is gone and it has not been up since. The profile is in the right folder of the OS (WINNT/system32/spool/drivers/color) like all the other profiles, so I do not understand what the problem is.

Please assist,

Thank you
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ID._Awe
Jul 7, 2004
Nassive: Put a copy of the profile in the C:\WINNT\system32\Color directory. Some systems use that as the source of the colour profiles. Just a thought.

Also, do you have an original copy of the profile? Sometimes when the profiles are modified certain data can prevent the profile from being read by PS. I ran into this problem with ColorTune from Agfa.

As a third option, create a copy of the profile with .icm to see if PS can read it with that extension.
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Nassive_Nembhard
Jul 7, 2004
Good afternoon Awe,

Thank you for the assistance and responding so quickly.

The profile is already in the directory from before (I believe that was in my previous message) and PS is not recognizing it, and I have also made various copies and it still won’t pick it up. I even placed it in the directory of the program (PS color directory) and it still will not recognize it. What I do not understand is why it was able to see it before, but all of a sudden no longer?

In any case, I tried changing the extension, as you recommended, but it is not working. What else do you think might work?

Thank you,
Nassive
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brent_bertram
Jul 7, 2004
Nassive,
If you send it to me , attached to an email, I’ll try it on my Win2k system and see if it’s recognized here. Do you possibly have a lot of profiles in the system profile location ? Sometimes, too many profiles can cause odd things to happen.

🙂

Brent
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Nassive_Nembhard
Jul 7, 2004
Good afternoon Brent,

Thank you for your assistance in this matter. I will gladly send the profile to you attached in an e-mail. In the subject line I will
put: ICC profile not recognized–Nassive, this will confirm it is me actually sending the attachment.

We do not have many profiles at all, this is actually one we plan to use as a default for our paper profile/type. In any case, expect an e-mail from me in a few minutes.

Again, thank you,
Nassive
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brent_bertram
Jul 7, 2004
Nassive,
I’ve replied by email, but for the forum , here is the text.

"The profile shows up fine for me in "Convert to profile" and Soft Proofing as a custom profile. It doesn’t show up in Print Preview. It shows up with the CMYK profiles in both of the above functions, and on my Windows PC , print preview only shows the profiles that are RGB or monochrome. Note that it shows up under the long internal name ( revealed in properties ) not the .icm filename.
If I select my HP4 MV printer, though, with it’s postscript driver, then the profile shows up under print preview. I think that the printer you have selected in print preview must be a postscript printer in order for any of the CMYK profiles to show up as choices.

My best guess,

🙂

Brent
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Do not count me as a CMYK guru, but it looks like Photoshop only display profiles that are appropriate for the selected printer in the print preview dialogue.

🙂

Brent

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