Datacolor User to User Support Group.

On Feb 8, 2010, at 10:43 AM, Tim Mimpriss wrote:

> Thanks again. I always print my targets through Spyder3Print. I was
> referring to making prints once the profile has been produced. The
> Colorsync setting is what spoils the prints.
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> Tim Mimpriss
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I know: how that "looks" is confusing.

When you're printing through profiles, in Photoshop or Lightroom:
that setting shouldn't be spoiling anything. It looks wrong, but
what happens underneath the hood should be fine. You should be
able to make good prints, with any printer profiles you're going
to use (Spyder3Print, manufacturer's profiles, etc) as long
as:

(a) You've printed the targets correctly to begin with, which
brings me back to what I was originally trying to get to the
bottom of. IF you printed targets from Spyder3Print, under
Snow Leopard, without specifically going into the Color Matching
pane in the print dialog and selecting "Epson Color Controls"
instead of ColorSync: your target prints will be wrong; the
profiles built from them will be wrong; and when you try to use
to make prints, you're going to get dark/dull/uncalibrated prints.

(b) You have Photoshop printing set up correctly.


(a) is the most likely thing to be wrong. The Color Matching
pane defaults to ColorSync (wrong!) when both choices are
enabled, so you -have- to manually go in and change it to
"Epson Color Controls" when printing targets from Spyder3Print
under Snow Leopard. Not doing this is the most common cause
of incorrect printer profiles under Snow Leopard.


David Miller
Senior Software Developer, Digital Color Solutions
Datacolor