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Re: QTR Create ICC Profile Not Recognized

2006-07-13 by Roy Harrington

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Greg" <dfaprinting@...> 
wrote:
>
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, CDTobie@ wrote:
> > 
> > Does it say .icc or .icm on the end? Without one or the other, 
> Windows 
> > doesn't know what it is.
> > 
> 
> It does have one or the other (I forget which), and Windows even shows 
> the correct icon, but it says there is an error when you try to install 
> it. I haven't looked to deeply into this, but I had a profile on my 
> machine that I made for one of the other members of this group and 
> decided to try installing it.
>

It's just the Windows right-click installer that doesn't recognize the ICC profile.
I suspect its because its grayscale not color.   But anyway if you just put it in the
correct folder Photoshop will see it just fine.  

For XP the folder for profiles is:
\windows\system32\spool\drivers\color\ 

Roy

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