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Print dialog profiles list shows useless profiles- how to trim?

  • November 18, 2019
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The support article at 

https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/kb/profiles-missing-print-dialog-box.html

says “In Photoshop, profiles that aren't appropriate for the chosen printer don't appear in the Print dialog box.”

 

However, mine lists my display profiles, plus display profiles that aren’t mine, like Display P3 and DisplayProfile_Linear. And also a bunch I don’t use:

e-SRBG, Generic RBG Profile, iPad.icc, ROMM-RBG, etc.

 

Is there a way to simplify the list to just show the printer profies I actually use? I’m using version 21.0.0 on Mac Mojave.


Thanks,
Russell

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Correct answer rob day

You can use Apple’s ColorSync Utility to browse all profiles available from the system, and get their location.

 

The utility will also tell you whether an RGB profile is an output or display class profile. Normally the best practice is to choose a preferred RGB display class profile as your image editing space (i.e., AdobeRGB, ProPhoto RGB, but not your system’s monitor profile). If you have settled on an editing RGB space there would be no need to keep other display class profiles in the system folders and the Photoshop menus.

 

 

 

One thing to note is some printers install their output profiles in the OSX Libraries Printer folder where they are available to the OS’s Print Settings... dialog, but not the CC application’s Print dialog.

 

My large format Epson printer’s output profiles are stored in /Library/Printers/EPSON/InkjetPrinter2/ICCProfiles/Pro7600.profiles and not in one of the system’s ColorSync folders. To get at them I would have to open the .profiles package:

 

 

The above profiles are available from the OS Print Settings, but not Photoshop’s Print dialog:

 

 

If I pull one of the Epson output profiles out of the package, and install it in one of the System profiile folders, the ColorSync utility will show it as an RGB Output profile. The profile for Photo Glossy Paper, which can be chosen in the OS print dialog via Media Type:

 

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rob day
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rob dayCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
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November 18, 2019

You can use Apple’s ColorSync Utility to browse all profiles available from the system, and get their location.

 

The utility will also tell you whether an RGB profile is an output or display class profile. Normally the best practice is to choose a preferred RGB display class profile as your image editing space (i.e., AdobeRGB, ProPhoto RGB, but not your system’s monitor profile). If you have settled on an editing RGB space there would be no need to keep other display class profiles in the system folders and the Photoshop menus.

 

 

 

One thing to note is some printers install their output profiles in the OSX Libraries Printer folder where they are available to the OS’s Print Settings... dialog, but not the CC application’s Print dialog.

 

My large format Epson printer’s output profiles are stored in /Library/Printers/EPSON/InkjetPrinter2/ICCProfiles/Pro7600.profiles and not in one of the system’s ColorSync folders. To get at them I would have to open the .profiles package:

 

 

The above profiles are available from the OS Print Settings, but not Photoshop’s Print dialog:

 

 

If I pull one of the Epson output profiles out of the package, and install it in one of the System profiile folders, the ColorSync utility will show it as an RGB Output profile. The profile for Photo Glossy Paper, which can be chosen in the OS print dialog via Media Type:

 

NB, colourmanagement
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NB, colourmanagementCommunity Expert
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November 18, 2019

Hi Russell

when you select "photoshop manages color" in the print with preview dialog ALL ICC profiles of the relevant type are listed. To trim this, you can remove ICC profiles from your profiles folder - with care.[https://www.colourmanagement.net/advice/where-are-my-icc-profiles/] but this needs thought as some are used by other software. 

Unfortunately it seems that Photoshop does not have the capability to "know" which profiles suit your printer. 

I followed the link you posted which, as you suggested, seems to suggest that certain types of profiles are excluded from the popup list  (it's not true on my mac though): 

"In Photoshop, profiles that aren't appropriate for the chosen printer don't appear in the Print dialog box. For nonPostScript printers, including desktop inkjet printers, such Canon and Epson printers, working space profiles (sRGB, AdobeRGB, and ProPhotoRGB) and monitor profiles are no longer available."

 

Those profiles you list are "display" type profles and you're right they are listed on my mac too, nothing you can do about it other than

1: report it as a bug,

2: delete the ones you are sure you don't need, displays you don't have etc.

(if you do wish to delete any profiles, I recommend rather than actually deleting - first moving to a folder on the desktop called "removed profiles" -then if an application needs one of them you can put it back. 

 

I hope this helps

if so, please "like" my reply and if you're OK now, please mark it as "correct", so that others who have similar issues can see the solution

thanks

neil barstow, colourmanagement.net

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