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December 22, 2012
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ICC Profile for HP Printer

  • December 22, 2012
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I'd like to use printer color management in LR4.  My printer is not in the list.  Where do I get ICC profiles for an HP Photosmart 8250 printer and "HP Advanced" paper?

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Inspiring
December 22, 2012

I think the profile should have come with your printer.

But if that's not the case you can get the profile only on HP's website. Look for "Support" and do a search for "icc profile".

You have to download and install the profile. Installation has to be done in the correct folder or Lr won't find it. Right-click the downloaded file and select <install>.

In Windows the folder is C:|Windows\System32\spool\driver\color.

If you are on a Mac do a search for "icc" which will bring up your profiles and then see where they are.

Known Participant
December 22, 2012

Also, prints come out with blue shade.  I have calibrated my monitor with a Spyder system.

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JP Hess
Inspiring
December 22, 2012

I use an HP Officejet 7000 wide format printer. I know, it isn't a photo printer. But it does alright for me. There are no profiles, but in the printer driver I can choose Adobe RGB or Colorsmart RGB. I have been using Adobe RGB and it matches up really quite well with what I see on the monitor. And I'm using that option with Lightroom set to let the printer manage the color. It seems that HP doesn't provide ICC profiles for their printers. If that is what you're looking for then you'll probably have to go to Canon or Epson.

Community Expert
December 22, 2012

Many(most) of HP's printers have ICC profiles provided. I once in a while

use one that is not specifically is a photo printer but is meant as a

poster/banner printer that prints 48" wide and that even has a

spectrophotometer built in that you can use to get ICC profiles for any

paper/canvas/fabric that you can put in there. For all of their pro

printers they provide profiles. That said, they indeed do not provide

profiles for lots of their consumer inkjets, which is very annoying indeed.

This is made worse by the fact that none of the third-party paper makers

provide profiles for their papers on consumer printers. So indeed the trick

of setting Lightroom to use adobeRGB and setting the driver to expect that

is the best option.

Community Expert
December 22, 2012

I have np experience with this specific printer, but the standard profiles for manufacturer's papers are usually built in to the printer driver. To see them click on the profile popup in the print panel in Lightroom and select other. If they are not there you can try updating your printer driver by downloading the latest from HP's website. That should reinstall the icc profiles too and allow Lightroom to access them.

Known Participant
December 22, 2012

I updated driver.  Still don't see any ICC profile.