profiles

[barry g]

Hello there,
can you help ? I have a pro 9500 printer and I am confused what profile to use.I have dedicated ICC profiles for specific papers
which I use.I use colormunki to calibrate my monitor which then sends a monitor profile to my printer dialog box.Do I calibrate my printer to the monitor and then use these profiles or do I use the dedicated ICC profiles.
Plus can I delete the unwanted profiles generated by my colormunki from the dropdown profile box in printer dialog.
Thankyou Barry g

[Costas L]

Hello Barry

Your confusing the purpose of the different profiles, their use is not interchangeable and they are device specific.

When you calibrate your monitor, the profile produced is used by colour aware applications (example Photoshop, Lightroom, Mozilla firefox etc) to display the image correctly (ie to a defined standard) on your monitor. You never use this as a print profile

For printing, you always select the dedicated ICC profile for the paper your going to use for that printer - and of course select the corresponding paper type - gloss, matte etc in the printer dialogue

[barry g]

Thankyou Costas L,
that is what I do.But I was curious why they are stored with the profiles and I don,t seem to be able to delete the ones no longer in use.

[Costas L]

You should be able to delete unwanted profiles by right clicking them and selecting uninstall

On windows 7 they are kept in the directory
C:\Windows\System32\spool\drivers\color

If you get install when you right click, then just highlight and delete - is what I do

[barry g]

Thanks once again Costas L

[barry g]

Costas l,
I have just tried what you sugested for removal of unwanted profiles and it worked.
This is something that has bugged me for a couple of years but because of my job starting at
5.15 am & finnishing at 7.00 pm plus 1000miles plus a week tiredness ruled.I retired at the end of Jan now I have all the time I need.
Thanks again Barry g

[Costas L]

Glad to be of help