Currently on Big Sur and I've noticed that ICC Profiles when printing don't seem to be taking effect, is there likely to be a fix coming for this? The MacBook Pro is my current work machine and I'd like to keep it that way.
MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 11.5
Any ICC files installed by the operating system are kept in /System/Library/ColorSync/Profiles. As this is now on a read-only System partition in Catalina and Big Sur, applications that attempt to install ICC profiles there now will not succeed, even with admin privileges.
There is another /Library/ColorSync/Profiles location that may receive ICC entries with your admin privileges, and where newer applications that install ICC profiles should now be installing them, and applications that expect to find ICC profiles also now look.
And thirdly, it may not exist yet, but you can create a new ColorSync folder in your local Library (/Users/username/Library) with a Profiles folder within the ColorSync folder. You can deposit ICC profiles in that Profiles folder without any admin privilege.
What is not known is where your unnamed applications that use ICC printing profiles are looking for them when attempting to print, and whether this location is tunable in their application preferences.
The remaining question is whether ICC profiles become outdated, and newer applications refuse to use these outdated profiles, preferring newer versions.
Any ICC files installed by the operating system are kept in /System/Library/ColorSync/Profiles. As this is now on a read-only System partition in Catalina and Big Sur, applications that attempt to install ICC profiles there now will not succeed, even with admin privileges.
There is another /Library/ColorSync/Profiles location that may receive ICC entries with your admin privileges, and where newer applications that install ICC profiles should now be installing them, and applications that expect to find ICC profiles also now look.
And thirdly, it may not exist yet, but you can create a new ColorSync folder in your local Library (/Users/username/Library) with a Profiles folder within the ColorSync folder. You can deposit ICC profiles in that Profiles folder without any admin privilege.
What is not known is where your unnamed applications that use ICC printing profiles are looking for them when attempting to print, and whether this location is tunable in their application preferences.
The remaining question is whether ICC profiles become outdated, and newer applications refuse to use these outdated profiles, preferring newer versions.
I just created a new folder inside the main library: /System/Library/ColorSync and then /System/Library/ColorSync/Profiles. Inside the Profiles folder (/System/Library/ColorSync/Profiles) I placed my ICC-profiles, and when I opened the profile settings in Photoshop, everything was as before.
Big Sur & ICC Profiles for printing
