Datacolor User to User Support Group.

Hi guys,
Thanks for the advices. I did follow most of the advice. After a 
while I think I got quite dizzy from the patches and had to block 
them out with a piece of paper – which helped me also to align the 
readings. 

My suggestion for the patch print would be to put the row numbers and 
alphabets on all sides, currently its just on the left side and top. 
Once you lose focus, you can get quite disorient on where you are.

With much anticipation, I then loaded my regular prints and 
softproofed it in PS. I was quite dismayed at the softproof on dark 
blue t-shirts. Where there are folds in the t-shirt and in shadows, 
the softproof showed pitch shining black, totally devoid of details.

I proceeded to print (with all printer controls set to zero) with the 
new profile and while general colors were in the vicinity, it was too 
cyanish or bluish. Looks like I'm not going to get a spot-on match 
the first time.  No choice now but to go into repetitive rebuilding 
of  the profile with color adjustments to match what I see on the 
softproof. I plan to do this on the weekend where I can get some 
daylight next to the print.

Can someone help to explain how I can get better more accurate 
softproof? I guess I have to tinker around with the ref whie and 
black settings to see what's the differences it makes but with my 
initial try last night I couldn't see any difference when I enabled 
the paper white and monitor black in printfix pro.
Just wanted to know more about the softproof part before I spend more 
time in it.

Thank-you everyone.

Ed.