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Raw & Post Processing, Printing => Colour Management => Topic started by: HowardG on February 05, 2010, 11:58:17 am

Title: Windows 7 64 bit and icc profiles
Post by: HowardG on February 05, 2010, 11:58:17 am

I am about to upgrade to a Windows 7 64 bit computer.  I have many paper profiles for printing on my Epson 7900, both custom and 'canned' from the mfg site.  Is it safe to presume that these profiles will work normally in Windows 7 64 bit or are the custom ones going to have to be redone and new 64 bit ones downloaded.  Since they are just simple instruction sets I suspect they will work but thought I would ask to get an answer from someone who has actually given it a try.

 

Thanks

Title: Windows 7 64 bit and icc profiles
Post by: John.Murray on February 05, 2010, 01:01:02 pm

The profiles are just 'data' in the sense that a document, spreadsheet or even image is data, in otherwords they should be underlying O/S agnostic.  

I have no problems uploading or downloading profiles from my Z3100 to either Win7/64, Win7/32, XP or Mac OS X....

Title: Windows 7 64 bit and icc profiles
Post by: HowardG on February 05, 2010, 01:32:20 pm

Quote from: Joh.Murray

The profiles are just 'data' in the sense that a document, spreadsheet or even image is data, in otherwords they should be underlying O/S agnostic.  

I have no problems uploading or downloading profiles from my Z3100 to either Win7/64, Win7/32, XP or Mac OS X....

Thanks very much...one more wuick question if you don't mind.  If one is using 64 bit Photoshop on 64 bit Win7 should the profiles be in c:\windows\System32\spool\drivers\color\   or in c:\windows\SysWOW64\spool\drivers\color\???

What about if you are using the 32 bit PS on a 64 bit  Win 7??

Why do they have folders for both 64 and 32 bit profiles?

Title: Windows 7 64 bit and icc profiles
Post by: John.Murray on February 05, 2010, 02:35:06 pm

Good question!  I always use the O/S color management app to deal with this; no problems so far:
(http://imagesbymurray.com/images/win7-color-mgmt.PNG)

Title: Windows 7 64 bit and icc profiles
Post by: JeffKohn on February 05, 2010, 02:43:26 pm

Quote from: HowardG

Thanks very much...one more wuick question if you don't mind.  If one is using 64 bit Photoshop on 64 bit Win7 should the profiles be in c:\windows\System32\spool\drivers\color\   or in c:\windows\SysWOW64\spool\drivers\color\???

What about if you are using the 32 bit PS on a 64 bit  Win 7??

Why do they have folders for both 64 and 32 bit profiles?

All my profiles are in "c:\windows\System32\spool\drivers\color\ ", and they're visible from both 32-bit and 64-bit applications.

Title: Windows 7 64 bit and icc profiles
Post by: keithrsmith on February 06, 2010, 03:37:36 am

Just put the profile somewhere and then right click install and let the system do it.

Keith

Quote from: HowardG

Thanks very much...one more wuick question if you don't mind.  If one is using 64 bit Photoshop on 64 bit Win7 should the profiles be in c:\windows\System32\spool\drivers\color\   or in c:\windows\SysWOW64\spool\drivers\color\???

What about if you are using the 32 bit PS on a 64 bit  Win 7??

Why do they have folders for both 64 and 32 bit profiles?