Epson ICC profiles will not install in Mountain Lion

Walter,

Try just dowloading the ICC Profile and kleave in your download folder. Open a new session of Finder and open it up to the Library > ColorSync > Profiles folder. Now drag and drop the profile from the donload file to your Profiles folder.

Gerard Kiely

Canson Infinity

Digital Support

Apple increased security quite a bit more in Mountain Lion. In order to protect as many areas as possible, they also ended up blocking folders professionals need to get at. At least it's an easy fix.

Go to the /Library/ColorSync/ folder. Highlight the Profiles folder and press Command+I to bring up the Get Info dialogue fox. Expand the Sharing & Permissions arrow if necessary. By default, only the first of the three user names has Read/Write access. Click the padlock at the lower right and enter your admin password, then change the second and third user names to Read/Write. Close the Get Info box.

You'll now be able to copy your profiles into the folder without interference from the OS. Updates to OS X will likely set the permissions back to the defaults. A Repair Permissions probably would too, but you can change them back at any time.

Firstly there was nothing in my Profiles folder and I would have expected my successfully installed matte profiles to be there.

Sounds like you're in the wrong Profiles folder. Not having to enter a password tells me you're looking at the Profiles folder in your user account, and not the one in the main Library folder. Not that you can't put the profiles in your user account Profiles folder, but then you're the only user who can access them.

I wonder if the R1900 puts the profiles elsewhere and I should edit permissions on those folders?

With the Stylus Pro 4000 we previously owned, and our current 4900, Epson buries their profiles in the /Library/Printers/Epson/ folder. You just have to start looking through all of the subfolders and look for a folder named Profiles. Sometimes, it's not even that easy. That folder is often buried even deeper within one of the .plugin files. You have to right click on each one and choose "Show Package Contents" and then see if the profiles are in there.

I just used the Pacifist tool to peer into the Oct 4, Epson Printer Drivers v2.12 for OS X package. In particular, for the R1900, both sets of the ICC profiles are installed into the following paths. Supporting code for this printer is installed under the InkjetPrinter2 hierarchy.

/Library/Printers/EPSON/InkjetPrinter2/ICCProfiles/SPR1900_A.profiles/Contents/R esources

/Library/Printers/EPSON/InkjetPrinter2/ICCProfiles/SPR1900_W.profiles/Contents/R esources

The AutoSetupTool is installed in:

/Library/Printers/EPSON/InkjetPrinter2/AutoSetupTool/EPIJAutoSetupTool2.app

Everything in the above paths is owned by root with group admin. The individual R1900 .icc files are read/write by root, read-only by everyone else. There are two categories of .icc files for the R1900 as shown below:

Stylus Pro R1900 A Profiles

Stylus Pro R1900 W Profiles

Kurt Lang wrote:

I wonder if the R1900 puts the profiles elsewhere and I should edit permissions on those folders?

With the Stylus Pro 4000 we previously owned, and our current 4900, Epson buries their profiles in the /Library/Printers/Epson/ folder. You just have to start looking through all of the subfolders and look for a folder named Profiles. Sometimes, it's not even that easy. That folder is often buried even deeper within one of the .plugin files. You have to right click on each one and choose "Show Package Contents" and then see if the profiles are in there.

There should be a Library copy of the printer's PPD at /Library/Printers/PPDs/Contents/Resources/. Drag a copy of that file to your Desktop and open it. If you search for the lines beginning with *cupsICCProfile you should see the path to the installed profiles.

Thanks, Matt. Never thought of looking in the PPD for that info. Makes sense that it would be there since the printer would have to have some way of locating profiles in such a highly, non standard location.

My question on that has always been, why do they go so far out of their way to hide them? Profiles I can create myself are always far more accurate, so my first mission is to always delete all of the provided ones. That would be far easier to do if they were installed into the Profiles folder, where they should be.