Datacolor User to User Support Group.

Craig, PrintFix Pro certainly will do what you're wanting to do, and the
price is great compared to some of the high-end color management packages.  

You might also check into having a profile made by a service.  They range
from $50 to $100, and you basically print their target file and send them
the print(s).  They generate a profile and email or mail it to you.  Maybe
some others here can recommend a good place to have this done.  

If you took the time, you would probably find a 'close' profile as another
printer model, but it might take a bit of ink, time, and there's no
guarantee that another profile will work with your printer.

What printer do you have?

-kris

> -----Original Message-----
> From: colorvision_group@yahoogroups.com
> [mailto:colorvision_group@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of craigblurton
> Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2006 10:34 PM
> To: colorvision_group@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [colorvision_group] Baffles me
> 
> First of all, I am a complete novice at this and may be in the wrong
> place to ask this question.  If so, let me know and I'll try someplace
> else.
> 
> I have a six-month-old iMac and a three-month-old Canon Pixma MP800.
> I purchased Spyder2 Suite and calibrated my monitor without problem.
> Spyder2 Suite comes with PrintFix Plus, not Pro, and I think the idea
> is that instead of actually calibrating your printer you use
> approximations based on "ICCs" provided by Colorvision in the software.
> 
> From the documentation: "Users will typically select the PrintFIX PLUS
> target choice that most closely matches their printer, ink, and paper
> combination, and use the media type setting associated with it."
> 
> So, for instance, you pick an ICC like "Epson Model XYZ" used with
> "Really Really Glossy No. 888" and that sets your color. Is that
> right??
> 
> Anyway, that would be great except that they do not provide an "ICC"
> for my printer.  I contacted the local (Hong Kong) dealer about this
> and he basically told me to just experiment with those ICCs provided in
> the software. Since you must print multiple examples to check each
> result for each paper you use, this would be very expensive and time
> consuming which I pointed out to him. No answer since, so I went to the
> Web site and looked but couldn't really find any information to help
> me.
> 
> What can I do now? Do I need to buy PrintFix Pro? I'm not doing this as
> a professional printer so I don't want to spend a fortune.  I just want
> my prints to look somewhat like my screen, or vice versa.
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Craig