sorry for the confusion, no they do not show up in LR2, but the do in LR1.4... i have updated the profiles from the epson website and they all show in the -- library/colorsync/profiles-- file, i just cant seem to get lightroom 2 to recognize them.
any ideas would be of great help .
thanks
So these are Epson provided profiles? Which Epson printer? When installing Epson Drivers, the profiles are not placed in the standard colorsync folder. Instead they are located as part of a package ... buried deeply in another directory.
I have a similar problem in Lightroom. With my MacPro, my Epson installed 3800 profiles show up fine and I can check the ones I want to be included in the pop up menu. My Epson installed 11880 profiles do not show up in the list and are not available to Lightroom. On my MacBookPro, the profiles for both printers show up fine in Lightroom. I have not tried to fix it because I don't use any of Epson's profiles for the 11880, just my own which show up fine. But on both machines, none of these profiles are actually located in the Library/Colorsync/Profiles folder.
I have verified that all profiles that are actually in my system level library/colorsync folder show up ... just not the 11880 profiles that are tucked away in the other directory. They show up in Photoshop, but do not show up in programs like ColorThink or Apples Colorsync utility.
As a workaround you may be able to move the Epson profiles from the package file into the standard Library/ColorSync folder. If you want to try this, Navigate to Library/Printers/EPSON/InkJetPrinter/ICCProfiles/ and you should see a list of printers. If you find your printer, right click on it and select show package contents. In the new window navigate to Contents/Resources/ and your profiles should be there. I suppose you might be able to put an alias of the profile in the ColorSync/Profile folder, or if that doesn't work, move the ones you need into the systems Library/colorsync/Profiles folder.
There probably is a better solution than this. I'm not sure why they don't show up correctly, perhaps there is a missing alias.