diff --git a/Doc/changelog.docu b/Doc/changelog.docu
index ba67ebc9..cdac2c44 100644
--- a/Doc/changelog.docu
+++ b/Doc/changelog.docu
@@ -53,6 +53,7 @@
 <li>ImporterT: Modified the add_face function of importerT to always return a valid FaceHandle</li>
 <li>ImporterT: Return a valid FaceHandle when adding non-manifold faces.</li>
 <li>BaseExporter: Added accessor functions for HalfEdgeHandles and faceTexCoords to base exporter and exporter template.</li>
+<li>OBJ Writer: Fail if vertex color export was requested (Thanks to Manuel Massing)</li>
 <li>OBJ Writer: Added functionality to store FaceTexCoords to objwriter</li>
 <li>OBJ Writer: Applied fix for bad or missing vertex tex coords (Thanks to Gero Müller for the patch)</li>>
 <li>OBJ Writer: Fix vertex texture coordinates export in OBJ writer</li>
diff --git a/src/OpenMesh/Core/IO/writer/OBJWriter.cc b/src/OpenMesh/Core/IO/writer/OBJWriter.cc
index 434d9bc2..a592e0da 100644
--- a/src/OpenMesh/Core/IO/writer/OBJWriter.cc
+++ b/src/OpenMesh/Core/IO/writer/OBJWriter.cc
@@ -224,12 +224,22 @@ write(std::ostream& _out, BaseExporter& _be, Options _opt, std::streamsize _prec
   if (!check( _be, _opt))
      return false;
 
+  // No binary mode for OBJ
+  if ( _opt.check(Options::Binary) ) {
+    omout() << "[OBJWriter] : Warning, Binary mode requested for OBJ Writer (No support for Binary mode), falling back to standard." <<  std::endl;
+  }
 
-  // check writer features
-  if ( _opt.check(Options::Binary)     || // not supported by format
-       _opt.check(Options::FaceNormal))
-     return false;
+  // check for unsupported writer features
+  if (_opt.check(Options::FaceNormal) ) {
+    omerr() << "[OBJWriter] : FaceNormal not supported by OBJ Writer" <<  std::endl;
+    return false;
+  }
 
+  // check for unsupported writer features
+  if (_opt.check(Options::VertexColor) ) {
+    omerr() << "[OBJWriter] : VertexColor not supported by OBJ Writer" <<  std::endl;
+    return false;
+  }
 
   //create material file if needed
   if ( _opt.check(Options::FaceColor) ){