ICC Printer Profiles

Briansep

Newbie Location: Norwich UK Joined: May 27, 2015 10:35 Messages: 34 Offline

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Jun 13, 2015 12:31

When I go to print settings, ICC, it just says "as printer" and no more...

I assummed I could access my ICC printer profiles from the drop down.....

Am I right or.............

I have the trial version ......

stevek

Senior Contributor Location: Houston, Texas USA Joined: Jan 25, 2011 12:18 Messages: 4663 Offline

Jun 13, 2015 12:57

Do you have a little drop down arrow to the right of the word ICC asPrinter? I do and have many options for my Epson printer. Your options may be different. Have you selected the correct printer?

Why do you want to readjust the print quality/color settings after all the adjustments you made in the program. Sometimes they work against each other. .
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Briansep

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Jun 13, 2015 13:09

I do have a little arrow to the right, when I click on it I get a drop down with the same message, "as printer".

I thought I would see all my paper profiles as the programs and yes selected the correct Printer a 3880

Regds

Brian

PIX

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Jun 13, 2015 18:16

Hello Brian,

The ICC profiles, which relate to colour space, paper type & print quality, are typically installed with your printer and will be displayed under the dropdown Steve pointed out.

If there are no options but "As Printer", PhD will use your printer's current settings. Are you able to modify the settings in your printer interface?

Is your printer an Epson 3880? If so, here are the ICC profiles for it. You may need to install the ones you need.

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Briansep

Newbie Location: Norwich UK Joined: May 27, 2015 10:35 Messages: 34 Offline

Jun 14, 2015 13:39

Pix
I have a number of ICC profiles for my 3880, I see these in Photoshop and Aperture ok, but with PD just "as printer".

When I press print, it just prints and does not take me to the 3880 driver where I can can settings....

Redgs
Brian

PIX

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Jun 14, 2015 15:18

Brian,

Please excuse my lack of genuine expertise in this, but I've been doing some digging to try to investigate what may be occuring on your PC. You have ICC profiles installed which are recognised by PhotoShop & Aperture, but (apparently) not by PhotoDirector.

On one my PCs where no printer software is installed obviously no ICC profiles are available in PhD's Print module. On another, where two printers are connected, the profiles for each printer are available in PhD. I understand that's stating the bleeding obvious

Here, in Win 7, the ICC profiles read by PhD are installed at C:\Windows\System32\spool\drivers\color In that folder, there are files with various file extensions, but it's the .icc & .ICM that are recognised by PhD. (the same, but not all, profiles are recognised by Adobe LR)

In Control Panel\Color Management ICC profiles can be selected for various devices, incuding printers.

There may also be something in Devices & Printers, right click for settings/preferences that can be set so that PhotoDirector can "see" them.

I know this reply is more exploratory than definitive, & I apologise for that.

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Briansep

Newbie Location: Norwich UK Joined: May 27, 2015 10:35 Messages: 34 Offline

Jun 14, 2015 16:12

Pix

No apology necessary, glad for your help!

PD see's my 3880 ok.... just no Icc's ......

plus I have a Mac.....

I am off to Iceland in the am so this will be put on ice ..... until next week!

Regds

Brian

Briansep

Newbie Location: Norwich UK Joined: May 27, 2015 10:35 Messages: 34 Offline

Jul 01, 2015 10:10

I have looked at this again...

Still no dropdown ICC profiles...

Does anyone know where PD expects to find them?

osx 10.10.4

stevek

Senior Contributor Location: Houston, Texas USA Joined: Jan 25, 2011 12:18 Messages: 4663 Offline

Jul 01, 2015 13:26

Quote:

plus I have a Mac.....

Brian

That would have been important to put into your first post!

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Briansep

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Jul 01, 2015 13:28

Sorry......

stevek

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Jul 01, 2015 13:32

Quote: Sorry......

I guess I should have mentioned it when you said you also used Aperature !

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Briansep

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Jul 01, 2015 13:34

I just assumed the whole world used Macs!

PIX

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Jul 01, 2015 15:38

Hello Brian,

For a moment, I considered firing up my old OSX Mac, but it's been so long. Hopefully, we can resolve this without getting it out of mothballs!

Does this help you at all? http://forum.luminous-landscape.com/index.php?topic=79015.0

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Briansep

Newbie Location: Norwich UK Joined: May 27, 2015 10:35 Messages: 34 Offline

Jul 01, 2015 16:32

Pix

All my other applications, PS , Aperture, Pixelmator, Affinity, etc have found the ICC profiles......

So I guess they are in the correct place....

I give up!

Brian

off to walk the dogs now!