ICC Profiles - errors verifying files

[TeeJay]

I see from searching that many people are having/have had similar issues to me when printing from Lr. (darker prints than appear on-screen)

I have recently moved from a Windows environment (running Lr 1.3) over to Macs (Lr 2.4), so am also bang in the middle of a rather steep (but as Victoria puts it...) enjoyable learning curve!

I am experiencing dark prints from within Lr so I've been through many of the threads here. It would seem that I should concentrate my efforts on my printer profiles.

I'm using a Mitsubishi 955'DW Dye-sub printer - and have installed three ICC profiles that were supplied by the company from which I purchased the printer.

Question 1: Are the profiles that were supplied with the printer OK for both Windows & Macs? (don't laugh!)

Question 2: Using the ColorSync Utility, I ran a "Verify" scan on the profiles and it came back with these errors:-

~/Library/ColorSync/Profiles/SI955'fine.icm
Tag 'desc': Tag size is not correct.
Tag 'DEVD': Tag reserved field is not zero.
Tag 'DEVS': Tag reserved field is not zero.
~/Library/ColorSync/Profiles/SI955'finedeep.icm
Tag 'desc': Tag size is not correct.
Tag 'DEVD': Tag reserved field is not zero.
Tag 'DEVS': Tag reserved field is not zero.
~/Library/ColorSync/Profiles/SI955'superfine.icm
Tag 'desc': Tag size is not correct.
Tag 'DEVD': Tag reserved field is not zero.
Tag 'DEVS': Tag reserved field is not zero.

Are these errors anything to be concerned about? ... and if I run a "Repair" instead is it likely to fix these issues without causing any further problems?

Thanks for your (continued) help.

TJ

 

[sizzlingbadger]

Mitsubishi are probably the only people who can help you. Try contacting them about it. They may have some fixed profiles. If I recall correctly Epson had this problem with some of their profiles once and released fixed profiles.

If you run a repair then back up the originals first. Often the tags don't matter and don't effect the print profile in any way. For example 'desc' is just the description od the profole and if it contains non us7ascii characters you will see errors like Tag 'desc': Tag size is not correct.

 

[TeeJay]

Thanks for the reply, I did use the "contact us" form on Mitsubishi's website - but I got an "out of office - back on the 3rd August" reply!!!

Doesn't look good for the future!

TJ

 

[LJR69]

This is not a problem. I have had this from profiles which I've had great prints from in the past. It's just that the vendors are using reserved fields to put some additional information in and ColorSync sees that they are not null and so flags it when doing a verify. I used profiles with the same error message for years on a HP and they were just fine.
There's quite a few of us experiencing dark prints at the moment. I am certain it's not a LR specific issue though. Take a look at this thread here

 

[TeeJay]

Thanks for your response Lloyd. It would certainly seem that this is the case.

I decide to go ahead and use the profiles anyway (a bit like sticking your finger into the wall outlet to see if its live - and yes, I think I've done that before!)

I need to do some more testing, but I believe the issue is resolved. It may have been compounded by BOTH the printer AND Lr attempting to do the same job.

Thanks again

TJ