Publisher 2.2.1 | missing color profile 'coated GRACoL 2006'

[Garrett Cobarr]

I am returning to a business card printing company that I have not work with since I used to be an Adobe Photoshop customer, don't miss the product or the company -not going back, figured 20 years was enough.

I have been in the Affinity camp since their betas, despite Affinity's excellent software and expanding user base, some vendors still have trouble seeing past the Adobe landscape, no matter how outrageous their behaviors.

The printing company is Moo.com. I have ordered from them many times, if you know what your doing the results can be excellent for a mostly acceptable price.

They provide templates and guidelines - as this is my first time sending my files from Publisher, I've run into a few stumbles.

• Required CMYK color format: Publisher has CMYK/8 – no problem there.

• Required ICC profile:  'coated GRACoL 2006' – this profile is not in Publisher's document setup (screenshot attached)

• Required file type: saved to 'PDF/x-1a' – Publisher has the distinction 'PDF/x-1a:2003' – don't believe that's an issue

It looks like, at this point, my only uncertainty is the color profile.

I will pose the same question to Moo but I wanted to get the info from Affinity Publisher community first.

Thoughts?

 

[walt.farrell]

No, as far as I know that's not supplied with the Affinity applications, @Garrett Cobarr.

It looks like you can download it from https://www.color.org/registry/GRACoL2006_Coated1v2.xalter and install it yourself. How you do that will depend on the OS that you use, I think.

[Garrett Cobarr]

Walt, thanks for the link, I did not know that I could install color profiles! So the answer was bigger than the question.

I am on Mac OS – I'll post the how to install color profiles here for anyone else who needs this information. (Windows is described in both links)

"• For Mac OS, copy profiles into the /Library/ColorSync/Profiles folder or the /Users/[username]/Library/ColorSync/Profiles folder."

Preparing A Book For Print with Affinity Publisher – OneBookShelf Publisher Service.webloc

"This is a tutorial on how to install an ICC profile for Affinity Designer. Simply follow the provided steps to ensure that your artworks are printed with the correct colors."

Ho to add your ICC profile to Affinity designer - YouTube.webloc

After following the procedure I reopened Publisher and there was the previously missing color profile in the popup menu. I am going to assume that if there are any other missing color profiles, this would be the same procedure.

Thanks again.

Edited October 19, 2023 by Garrett Cobarr
Forgot to mention last two lines.

[MikeTO]

22 minutes ago, Garrett Cobarr said:

I am on Mac OS – I'll post the how to install color profiles here for anyone else who needs this information. (Windows is described in both links)

GRACoL 2006 is included with the latest versions of macOS, there's no need to install it. Are you using an older version of macOS? The list below shows what's included with macOS now.

[Garrett Cobarr]

I am, between upgrades.

As I am usually up to date, is likely the reason why I never had to install a color profile in the past.

Had to wait fro some critical software to catchup, two or three of the last Mac OS X upgrades have presented some challenges for independent developers.

[Sid J]

On 10/19/2023 at 5:25 PM, MikeTO said:

GRACoL 2006 is included with the latest versions of macOS, there's no need to install it. Are you using an older version of macOS? The list below shows what's included with macOS now.

Hmmm, I'm running OSX Sonoma, but I don't see all those profiles, maybe they don't arrive when performing an upgrade from OSX 13???

@Garrett Cobarr I loaded GRACoL2006_Coated1v2.icc previously.

FYI I have sent files from AD and AP to MOO with no issues.

[MikeTO]

1 minute ago, Sid J said:

Hmmm, I'm running OSX Sonoma, but I don't see all those profiles, maybe they don't arrive when performing an upgrade from OSX 13???

My mistake. I removed user installed colour profiles before taking the screenshot but it includes ones installed with Adobe CC, too. Adobe's installer inserted an alias into /Library/ColorSync/Profiles pointing to ~/Users/username/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Color/Profiles, so those were also included in my screenshot.

[Sid J]

Well that's my fear of missing out being put to rest 

[thomaso]

1 hour ago, Sid J said:

fear

This fear could prevent you from upgrading an operating system before it got its first bug fixes. 😉

[Sid J]

That's what I call healthy fear  or maybe self preservation.
I already wait about two weeks before any OSX upgrades, not all machines get upgraded at once and certainly not in the middle of a project.