Datacolor User to User Support Group.

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>  That would be a problem...:-) If you print the target that way; 
> measure;
>  build a profile; and then print through the profile the "right" way
>  (with color management turned off). The profile will end up doing very
>  little if it's based on measurements taken from "calibrated" output 
> through
>  the driver's standard color management settings, and the result would
>  be a print that would be very close to "uncalibrated".


Hey David, yes i think that i did accidentally have 'no color 
management' unchecked during one of the target prints. i shoulda 
thought of it before i sent the email to you :P. it came to me the 
moment i hit the send button.

as for the printer being the problem...

i went at problem solving once again this morning (the moment i 
finished my coffee)... and, to my amazement, everything was working 
again. there were no errors or printer issues, so a decided to print a 
couple new color swatches, did two readings and used the resulting ICC 
profiles, tried the profiles out and got a good print! your

i think what is happening is that i'm getting corruption in the print 
spooler. this is resulting in a bad file being sent to the printer and 
it clogs up the cache and makes everything screwy. i reinstalled all 
print drivers after trashing every printer driver and associated prefs 
i could find.

thanks for the help once again :)

ghi