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Colorsync can't repair bad printer profiles

I'm getting really bad color qulaity out of my HP B8850 photo printer, but only when I print to photo paper (on plain paper prints the quality is fine). Seems like a color profile issue so I finally came acrossn Colorsync and got "bad profiles" for all of my B8800 icc files. I've tried repairing them numerous times but colorsync can't repair them (I tried unlocking them, too and that didn't work). Any suggestions on how to fix them? Here's an example of one of the error messages...

/Library/Printers/hp/Profiles/photosmart/HP PSPro B8800-Advanced Photo Glossy.icc

Tag 'desc': Tag size is not correct.

Tag 'dmdd': Tag size is not correct.

Tag 'desc': Description tag has a bad Macintosh string.

Tag 'dmdd': Description tag has a bad Macintosh string.

thanks for any suggestions/help!

cheers,

Aaron

iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.2)

Posted on Dec 14, 2011 1:54 PM

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Aaron Smith6 Author

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Mar 18, 2012 11:09 AM in response to miz_mdk

Since I first started this thread I tried everything and couldn't find answer. I wish I had figured it out and could share, but nothing seems to work. I now have a dead printer sitting here. Thinking of trying to sell the ink cartridges and print heads and sending the rest to scrap.

miz_mdk

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Mar 19, 2012 12:03 AM in response to Aaron Smith6

Yes, I tried this fix and when I opened up the profile with Colorsync Utility, I could see everything he talked about, but it wasn't possible to edit or delete the size. Well, I suppose if HP kept supporting its printers forever, you wouldn't have a reason to buy a new one, would you?

Colorsync can't repair bad printer profiles