Changing Color Profiles

I saved in Preview a business card that I created in Adobe Photoshop Elements. There is an online service called VistaPrint; I uploaded my file, and the colors that were actually printed on the business cards were quite dull It was a tiff with rgb. I called the company to complain and was told they would reprint them for me and to save the file as jpg with cmyk. Using ColorSync, I did that, but the cmyk file was dull. Any suggestions as to rgb vs. cmyk?

All you need to do is copy the ones you want to use into a Profiles folder. The one in your user account, or the main Library folder. Doesn't matter which.
To get to your home Library folder, click on the desktop so the Finder is the foreground app. Hold down the Option key and choose Go > Library from the menu bar. This will open the Library folder in your user account. Within that, you'll find the folder path ColorSync > Profiles, which you've already found. Put the .icc profiles in that Profiles folder.
If you have more than one user account on your Mac and want all users to have access to those profiles, then go to the main Library folder. Double click the icon of your startup drive (assuming you have your drives showing on the desktop), and then open the /Library/ColorSync/Profiles/ folder. Copy the .icc files into the Profiles folder. Since this is the common Library folder rather than the one in your user account, it's protected against any ol' person copying files into it. It will ask for your admin password before allowing the profiles to copy into that folder.
They should then show up in your apps.

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MacBookPro mid 2010. Update Samsung SSD 830.
Mountain Lion 10.8.2 just installed (new installation).
Reset PRAM and SMC. Done. No result.
Try with GfxCardStatus. No result.
When the system uses the discrete video card changes the color profile.
I'm not the only one with this problem.
Someone managed to solve the problem (really)?
I DO NOT ACCEPT COMMENTS OR ANSWERS USELESS.
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Stefano.

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sasa
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