I want to print from Photoshop or Lightroom Classic without any color correction at all. It was possible some time ago, until Adobe changed Photoshop. They then introduced Adobe Color Printer Utility as a solution. However, that program is not updated to work with later OsX. So what is the solution now?
Setting File>Print>"Photoshop Manages Colors" forces user to select and ICC profile in the list menu. Setting "Printer Manages Colors" have no (apperent) setting for "No Color Management"/"Profile Making" that I can find (see two attachments). However, its extremeley easy in some other non-Adibe app to print without color management (see third attachment with "Profile Creation" setting.
I have turned to Adobe chat support, but after hours, I still don't know for sure. Adobe chat support first suggested to select sRGB in list menu (?) and that would somehow stop color managment. I didn't understood that logic. Next support wrote after wanting me to reset Photoshop completely, that there are no current solution.
The purpose is to print color patches in order to measure the colors and create ICC printer/paper/ink profiles. It's very easy to do from some other apps, but I dont want my clients to be forced to buy an additional app (go outside their Adobe eco system with PS & Lr) when printing the color patches needed for profile making.
Do you have a solution withing Photoshop 2023 or Lightroom Classic, or is the current (2023-April-21) solution only to buy another separate software?
Reference:
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"The Adobe Color Printer Utility is not supported on macOS Catalina 10.15 or later."
Those of us who need to print targets for creating an ICC profile must do this, we can't without using the Adobe Color Print Utility (free) or one can do this with the ColorSync utility also free and a few other applications. A null profile isn't the same as using no color management to print (send the numbers, AS IS to the print driver).
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None of this has any effect on the printer driver settings for media type and so on. That's not part of the color management chain and is a separate concern. But I assume that's just a matter of consistent settings (I don't do printer profiling).
Thank you, that sounds logical.
However, I don't find the profile in list menu when Photoshop Manages Color and I cannot select it when selecing "Printer Manages Color".
Example: Image has sRGB assigned as profile, and sRGB exists in OsX but is not visible in the Photoshop listmenu.
What to do about that?
Ok, here is my understanding - I can't see how the concept of "no colour management" could ever be used for that printer. If it were a CMYK PostScript printer, it is possible to imagine designing in the actual ink colours. But when you work with a 12-colour printer, it is always sent RGB. Then the RGB is converted to some actual mix of 12 inks. This process is, by definition, colour management. It can't be turned off, because it's fundamental to it. If you choose "let the printer manage colour" then the RGB from your design is sent to the printer, and the printer converts to 12 inks according to its setup, and you get ink on paper. It isn't always going to to the same job, of course, because one person might be working on an sRGB document and and another person might be working on an Adobe RGB document. These of course should convert the SAME RGB colour to DIFFERENT 12-colour mixes, otherwise something is broken. But the result sounds ideal for making a profile from a patch, because it will be a true reflection of what will happen if a colour managed app prints specific colours.
The image has no profile attached to it, and I select "Leave as it" when asked in the software what to do about it.
When there is no profile attached to the image, then Print Color Mode is set automatically to "Profile Creation", for my RGB printer.
I can then print it without any colour management (or whatever name is best used). Similar process was possible before with Adobe Color Printer Utility for my RGB printers, see
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Or, better yet, just print through the application that produces the target and should if it's worth its salt, allow you to print the targets without color management.
Thank you, Andrew!
Can you please explain why "No color management" gives different results vs "null profile" for us?
Good to know that Adobe Color Print Utility works, despite that Adobe states otherwise.
I have no problems printing without color managment, using either the program(s) that created the target or other alternatives. However, others who wants to print color patches and send them for profiling don't own the same software as I do. They usually only have PS and Lr. Therefore my initial question.
I hope this helps
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Adobe Color Printer Utility (ACPU) is a small, free program designed to print images without any color management (after turning off color management in the printer driver), so that printer profile targets can be printed for the creation of new ICC printer profiles. You can download ACPU for free ( -color-management-option-missing.html). However, I have satisfied myself that Adobe Lightroom is equally capable of performing that function, at least on Windows machines. That issue had been in doubt--see the discussion starting at
To test the point, I used Andrew Rodney's gamut test file, which he makes available for download at The file is a 16-bit TIFF in ProPhoto RGB, and this is what it looks like when properly color-managed:
The test prints were made on my Epson R280, with color management turned off (Page Setup... -> Properties... -> Advanced -> Color Management -> ICM, with "Off (No Color Adjustment)" checkbox checked). Both were printed on Epson Ultra Premium Luster paper with Epson ink. For both I correctly set the media type in the driver.
First I printed the file with ACPU. As expected, the colors were quite shifted from what you see above. For example, the almost-turquoise material under the fish looked dark bluish-purplish, and the lime-green areas printed medium-dark green.
Second I printed the file again with Lightroom 6.14. As before, I set the printer driver for color management turned off, and in Lightroom's Color Management panel, for Profile I selected from the menu Managed by Printer. I also turned off Print Sharpening and Print Adjustment.
The colors of the two prints are as identical as my eyes are capable of detecting, at least under incandescent (halogen) lighting in my house. To be clear, the prints are not identical, because they're scaled slightly differently.
So if you don't have and/or don't want to get and/or use ACPU, or are having an issue printing a profiling target at the desired size / scale, then it appears to me that at least for Windows users, printing the profiling target with Lightroom instead of ACPU, using the procedure outline above, is a functional alternative.
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The free Adobe Color Printer Utility only has one function. But, for our customers it is ofgreat importance! It is used to print the colour charts (targets) used to profile ('characterise') their inkjet printers. These charts will then be posted to us, and on receipt, will be measured ('read') by our spectrophotometer while creating your Custom Printer Profiles.
This is the only function of the utility. You cannot use it to print photographs, as it cannot use ICC Colour Management, which is the whole idea! So you still need to use Photoshop, Lightroom and other suitable applications for printing actual images, after you have received your new Custom Profile from us.
You need to print the special profiling charts (targets) without any form of Colour Management being applied anywhere in the system. This is in order to capture the 'native' or 'raw' characteristics of the printer, its ink and paper. This was possible with very old versions of Photoshop (prior to CS5), where you could print with 'No Color Management' selected. However, there were problems with macOS still applying its rather buggy ColorSync Color Management. 152ee80cbc
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