Datacolor User to User Support Group.

>>  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".
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>
>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...

No problem..:-)

This has happened to people from time to time; I wish there was just
a way to have a "color managment in the driver on/off" control -outside-
of the printer drivers, so that nobody would have to remember to push
the proper buttons on the inside of the driver, or even know that they're
there.

But: there isn't...

>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!


That sounds better!

>
>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 :)

You're welcome! Let's see if things run consistently for you now. if you're
right, that would make it a "digital" problem (bad data being sent to the
printer), although I'm still puzzled as to how that could happen or produce
the kinds of results you're talking about.

I was thinking more along the lines of "analog" problems: such as, the ink
not being delivered consistently, head clogs, etc. I suppose we'll see...


Best regards,


-- 
David Miller
Senior Software Developer, Digital Color Solutions
ColorVision