Adobe® Color Printer Utility to print your targets without color management

I have recently upgraded to Tahoe 26.0 on my mac mini and now cannot open the adobe color print utiliy in order to create custom profiles for printing. Could you please advise if there is a way around this. I need it for my work as a photographer.

Unfortunately this "application" applies anti-aliasing to the print.

Why would anyone think that that is a good idea.  The application should allow you to print without anti-aliasing so as not to influence the colors of the image.

It seems there are quite a few issues with this program - including not being able to set margins and issues with scaling - which have never been addressed or fixed.

It seems one reason might be that adobe feels, 'well, this utility is just for printing color targets so we don't need to fix the bugs - people can live with them,' or some similar sentiment.

One problem with this is some of us use it for more than printing targets. For example, some of us want to print 'digital negatives' (transparencies) with no color management, and not being able to set the margins or having the utility randomly re-scale an image are big issues.

Therefore some bug fixes would be very helpful.

Will this work with Lightroom and if not, do you have a similar utility for LR3?

My  issue w/the ACPU is that it does not seem to print accurate colors when comparing test charts printed from i1 Match and the ACPU. The ACPU prints are noticably lighter and less saturated looking.

Hi,

I'm the the Argyll user that Alan refers to with the DTP20.  He very clearly outlines the frustration I've had with Adobe's Color Printer Utility.  Graeme Gill, the author of ArgyllCMS had explained the problem using the DTP20 "Pulse":

"The i1pro & ColorMunki recognize patches from the readings it takes, which is why it needs a distinct contrast between each patch, or a contrasting patch spacer. As a result these instruments won't notice any slight change in scale.

The DTP20 on the other hand has a reference scale on it's ruler so that it knows exact distances. It therefore doesn't need any contrast between the patches, but is likely to be much more sensitive to the exact patch length.'

This seems to be the case.  Additionally it seems more tolerant of wider patches than narrow patches.

Phil

There are still users of this utility that are having problems because the utility does not print targets with absolute fidelity.  Under Win7, 64 bit, I have some ArgyllCMS targets designed for an i1 Pro and the targets are reduced in size by 2.7%.  It appears to me that the utility attempts to center the target whether or not it is centered on the original page.  If I print the target from Photoshop it is the original size but I can only print targets using CS4 because CS5 won't print without color management.  This bug did not affect the ability of the i1 Pro to read the patches but another Argyll user cannot print a patch set DTP20 that is readable.  Does Adobe plan to address this bug in an update?

I am using Max OS 10.6.6 with an Epson 3880, trying to print a profile target.  After installing the ACPU, I open the target, set parameters, hit the Print button, the Epson window opens showing the ink levels in the cartridges, and then nothing happens at the printer.  There is no evidence of a job having been sent to the printer when looking at the 3880 log.  The computer-printer connection is fine, as I printed a page from the Adobe website while agonizing over this.

It would appear there is a some kind of bug in the ACPU.  So there seems to be no way to create the profile target print for use in Photoshop.

Hi,

I have download and installed the utility on my Imac (im am fairly new to Mac's), when I try to print Permajet targets on my Epson Pro 4000 i get the following:

On startup I get a warning that the software was downloaded from the net, it happens every time so I have switched the warning off. (not sure if it should do this)

After selecting FILE - PRINT and choosing the printer I get "SETTING COLOR MATCHING MODE -30873" error message

If I click OK it carries on to the printer setup. The printer setting, color management, paper and roll settings are all struck thru and cannot be altered. When you select print the above error message appears again. You can continue through the error message and print the targets. They look ok but are resized to approx 3/4 of the A4 size they should be. Permajet requests the targets to be full size for profiling.

When I close the utility I then have to eject it (as though it were a disk) from the right hand side of the screen.

I removed and reinstalled the program but it made no difference, exactly the same thing happens. I am running Snow leopard and CS4, both of which are fully updated.

My questions are:

1) How do I get rid of the error message?

2) How do I get the targets to print at the correct size?

3) Does the eject issue show a problem with the installation or is this the norm?

Thanks,

Steve.

Will the rseizing bug ever be fixed ? or do Adobe think this isn't important ?