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Thank you. I think that we are actually in agreement. My only problem is 
a wee gremlin that seems to have slipped in with Snow Leopard, and that 
changes settings in the driver. At least I have now found a workaround, 
and am printing happily.

Tim Mimpriss
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David Miller wrote:
> On Feb 8, 2010, at 10:43 AM, Tim Mimpriss wrote:
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>> 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.
>>
>> 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
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