Where are Canon Pixma Pro-100 ICC paper profiles stored on macOS, and how can Lightroom use them?
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On macOS, after installing the Canon Pixma Pro-100 driver, Canon paper profiles appear in the printer dialog but not in Lightroom’s print profile list. They do not seem to be in the usual ColorSync profiles folders such as /Library/ColorSync/Profiles. Where does Canon store these ICC paper profiles, and is there a way to make them available to Lightroom?
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Let me help you a bit for future... On a UNIX-based system, there's a handy little utility known as "find" which can be used to search the file system for patterns. So, for example:
find /Library/ -name "*.icc" -print
This will find all files with the extension .icc inside the system Library folder and print them to the console. For more details, in a terminal:
man find
If you want to put the results in a text file so you can more easily look at them, then:
find /Library/ -name "*.icc" -print > ~/Desktop/icc.txt
Hopefully that helps. You might need to use sudo to see in some directories, just put that at the beginning of the command followed by a space.
sudo find ...
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Canon’s Pro-100 paper profiles may not be installed as normal .icc files in the standard ColorSync folders. On macOS they can be stored inside a Canon package at:
/Library/Printers/Canon/BJPrinter/Resources/ICCProfiles
For the Pro-100, look for something like PRO100series.canonicc, then use Finder’s Show Package Contents to access the embedded .icc profiles.
If Lightroom only shows profiles from the standard ColorSync locations, you may need to copy the extracted .icc files into a normal profiles folder such as /Library/ColorSync/Profiles so Lightroom can see them.
If you want to search manually, Terminal can help, for example:
find /Library/ -name "*.icc" -print
That said, some Canon driver installs may not expose the profiles to Lightroom automatically, even after reinstalling the driver. In that case, extracting them from the .canonicc package is the practical workaround described here.
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