How do I add an ICC profile to El Capitan?!

I have a lab with 20 iMacs hooked up to Epson 3880s and 4 hooked to Epson P800s. Before El Capitan everything printed true with Photoshop. After installing El Capitan only the P800s printed true. I had to manually install the 3880 profiles as others said below. The profiles showed up on Photoshop but the colors were always way off no matter what I did.

The solution: I now have to print ONLY through Lightroom to get true colors on a 3880 with El Capitan.

Edit in Photoshop then move to Lightroom to print.

Yes, something changed in ColorSync, or the way the OS uses ColorSync, that causes certain apps to output horrible color.

You can get the correct results from Photoshop, but you must use, "Photoshop Manages Colors". Choose your printer profile below that, and make sure the check box for "Black Point Compensation" is on.

I have the same issue...

any solution found?

I think I got it:

Instead of hardly trying to copy the profile into the "System/.....", I just put it into " "user"/library/colorsync/profiles".

Seems to work.

Hope this helps!

For a lot more, paper company has loaded a lot of info, including profile use in Photoshop for Epson and HP.

http://www.redrivercatalog.com/profiles/how-to-install-printer-icc-profiles-el-c apitan-osx.html

I created a path user/library/colorsync/profiles as you described and was able to add the latest icc color profile -- which is a good start. However, it does not show up in ColorSyncUtility, SystemPreferences/Display/Color or Nikon Capture NX2 available profile lists. So, how do I link that profile to the system? I'm sorry if I seem dense, but this used to be so simple.

That profile lets me soft proof photos to the same color profile used by my local Costco printer -- Fuji Frontier DL 650 Pro, Fuji Premium Dry Photo Paper -- making it invaluable for quality photo processing.

Any profile in your user account should be seen by all apps. But then, some apps are hard coded to look in only one spot. It's also a nuisance on a production machine where multiple accounts all need to use the same profiles. Not that they take up much room, but then you have to copy the profiles into every user account instead of just once in the root Library folder where all users can access them.

It's a simple fix, though. From an admin account, open the /Library/ColorSync/ folder. Highlight the Profiles folder and press Command+I, or choose Get Info from the menu bar. Expand the Sharing & Permissions section if it isn't already open. Click the + button. Add yourself (the admin user) with Read & Write access. Close the Get Info box.

Now you (as the admin user) can put any profiles into the folder you want, or pull out ones you don't need without any kind of notice from the OS.

Thanks Kurt. That helped for adding the ICC profile in El Capitan; however, Nikon Capture NX2 still doesn't see it. I'll check with Nikon, but I believe Nikon sold their Nik software division and NX2 is no longer supported. So, I'll probably have to make do with an older ICC profile.

Hi rncala,

Sorry, can't help you with that one. I downloaded the NX 2 demo and tried to install it on an erased drive I put Yosemite on. On the very first launch, it told me the trial period had expired. Huh? I just installed it. Well, I must have installed it some time in the past because according to Nikon's site, from the moment you download the file, you have 60 days to use the trial software. Period. If you don't install it, the 60 day counter is ticking and can run out without you even trying the software.

So, my plan was to see why it wouldn't show the profile you added, but couldn't. As you note, it's also abandoned software with no updates coming.

I would look in the folder created for NX 2, or within the application package itself to see if the profiles it does show you are stored there. If they are, you can add your profiles to that location. But more likely, you'll probably find such a folder in the Application Support folder of either the main Library folder, or the Library folder within your user account.

In either case, you may need to close and restart the app before new profiles will appear. Many apps do that. They'll only read in what's there when the app launches.

Got it -- finally -- from DryCreekPhoto.com:

1. Option-Go: Click the Go menu and hold down the Option key. The user's Library shows as a selection in the menu, and clicking it brings you to the correct folder. There is no hot-key combination to open the folder directly, so mousing and clicking is required.
2. Copied the downloaded icc file, without the icc extension, to the Library/ColorSync/Profiles folder.
3. Opened Capture NX 2 Preferences/ColorManagement/PrinterProfiles and voila! -- there it was.
4. Clicked Soft Proof On for my photo and it instantly transformed.

Apparently Apple hides the Library folder even from system administrators -- isn't that special!

Thanks for encouraging me through the struggle Kurt and I hope this solution helps other users,

Rob

Ah, so the app does only look in the Profiles folder of the user account. Good info to know.

Back in Lion 10.7.x if I remember correctly, Apple decided to hide the Library folder of the user accounts. A person can come up with various reasons for that. But a lot of users must have complained about that decision and a method was given to make it easy to show again.

1) Click anywhere on the desktop so Finder is the name of the app next to the Apple logo at the upper left.

2) Press Command+Shift+H . This opens your user account. Press Command+J. From this folder only (when you opened your user account with the keyboard command), an extra check box appears towards the bottom. Turn on the check box to show the Library folder. Close the Options palette.

That's it. Your user account Library folder will now always be visible.

Thanks Kurt -- that worked!