Where are printer profiles?

[Canucklehead]

I created some custom profiles for my Canon iP6700D, using the Profile Prism app, for printing with Lightroom under Windows 10. I put the ICC file C\windows\system32\spool\drivers\color...with all the other Windows device profile files. I'm relatively new to Affinity photo, had it only a few months. When I print from Photo, I can't find the printer profiles I created and used in Lightroom, in the drop down lists. I also put the profiles in the Appdata\affinity\...\profiles folder (just in case), but still they don't show. When I do a reverse search e.g. in the drop down list in Photo|Edit|Print|Color Management, I see  "Canon 6700 Glossy Lightroom", but I can't find it on either my C: or D: drives. I did a full search for all "*.IC*" files, and didn't find the  "Canon 6700 Glossy Lightroom" string. Where does the Affinity drop down profile list come from and/or how do I get profiles into the list that aren't their now?

 

Thanks for the help (and I think Affinity Photo is an excellent app...a real competitor for PS at a reasonable price).

[Canucklehead]

Update: I am doing some tests to see if vendor profiles will provide satisfactory results since my own custom print profiles are not "seen" bu Photo. I use Kirkland (Costco) photo paper with 3rd party inks on a Canon iP6700D printer, so I downloaded Glossy paper profiles for my printer from Red River, the photo paper supplier. Lo and behold, when I right clicked "Install Profile", these profiles did get installed and do show up in the "Color Management" drop down list in Photo. I don't know how these differ from the custom ICC files I created (and used successfully in Lightroom), but they are there. So I am going to test these profiles, along with the vendor supplied Canon profiles for glossy paper, and maybe I will hit on a good match. I'll keep the group posted.

[dominik]

On 23.8.2017 at 6:28 PM, Canucklehead said:

I created some custom profiles for my Canon iP6700D, using the Profile Prism app, for printing with Lightroom under Windows 10. I put the ICC file C\windows\system32\spool\drivers\color...with all the other Windows device profile files. I'm relatively new to Affinity photo, had it only a few months. When I print from Photo, I can't find the printer profiles I created and used in Lightroom, in the drop down lists. I also put the profiles in the Appdata\affinity\...\profiles folder (just in case), but still they don't show. When I do a reverse search e.g. in the drop down list in Photo|Edit|Print|Color Management, I see  "Canon 6700 Glossy Lightroom", but I can't find it on either my C: or D: drives. I did a full search for all "*.IC*" files, and didn't find the  "Canon 6700 Glossy Lightroom" string. Where does the Affinity drop down profile list come from and/or how do I get profiles into the list that aren't their now?

 

Thanks for the help (and I think Affinity Photo is an excellent app...a real competitor for PS at a reasonable price).

 

Hello Canucklehead,

 

wellcome to the forum.

 

Perhaps this answer in the forum solves your problem (click on the header link to see the entire message):

Basically it points to a menu entry called 'File / Import ICC Profile'.

 

d.

[Canucklehead]

Thanks for the input everyone. It didn't directly get me to the answer, but it did make me think of some other possibilities. I was looking for the filename of the profile to appear, whereas the profile was in the drop down list but as a "friendly name". For instance, Canon has an ICM profile filename "CNB80CA0.ICM" in the Windows ICC/ICM folder. In Affinity Photo (or Photoshop or Lightroom) Print drop down list it shows as "Canon iP6700D PR1". I was looking for the wrong label for my custom profiles.

 

Most profiles and their "friendly names" are the same but not here.

 

Thanks again for the input.