PS CC 2019 / HighSierra and ICC profiles

[Brunetti]

hi there,

I know this is an old theme, but it makes my hair turning to gray. I have several custom ICC profiles from various manufacturers, they are installed as follows:

Library - ColorSync - Profiles

Library - Application Support - Adobe - Color - Profiles -  (there is also a folder "recommended", which appears as an alias also in Library - ColorSync - Profiles)

User - ColorSync - Profiles

Library - Printers - Epson - InkjetPrinter2 - ICCProfiles (<-package)

The ColorSync Tool shows ALL of these paths correct, the profiles are ok, no repairs are needed.

Now to the problem:

The profiles were visible and usable in the PS soft proof-dialog. I can make presets with them and it works fine. But in Photoshops print dialog, where they are really important, I can't find them, they are not on the list. I scrolled for hours, rebooted the app, the machine and myself, nothing happened.

Does someone have an idea, what I'm doing wrong?

jakob

[gener7]

I'm not an expert on this, but this thread does have some good answers:

Why doesn't my custom profiles show up when I go to print in Photoshop?

[Brunetti]

Hi gener7,

thx for the reply, this article is indeed interesting. I copied it for further "reference":-) But rebuilding the prefs did not solved the problem, the profiles still has not been there until ... ääääähh ... no idea, suddenly they appeared. It was maybe the 5th reboot of the Mac, the 10th start of PS, I checked them with the ColorSync Tool. Nothing helped, and all of a sudden *heureka* they are standing on the list. I did nothing before except restarting PS.

It worked now, but I learned nothing.

BTW, could anyone explain why there are display and scanner profiles on this list also? For example REC709 or e-sRGB? BrettN (Adobe) wrote in that thread "Photoshop curates the list of available profiles...", so why are there profiles which cannot be used for printing?

happy printing! Jakob

[gener7]

I'll leave that last question for better minds, Jakob. I'm happy to hear that your print profiles are in the Print dialog.

I hope you are getting the expected results.

Gene