Datacolor User to User Support Group.

Hi,

I just purchased PrintFix Pro with the 1005 colorimeter and I 
uploaded the Spyder3 print software.  I used this to profile an Epson 
R1800 printer with Epson inks and Ilford premium photo pearl paper.

My first question deals with using the colorimeter.  When I am making 
the measurements the colorimeter sometimes skips ahead two or three 
squares instead of moving to the next square. I was very careful to 
make sure I was not double-clicking the colorimeter when releasing 
the button. Once it happened on the end of a row; it skipped to the 
third square on the next row.  I recover by backing up and re-
measuring the last good square.  Any suggestions?

The second question deals with evaluating the profile with 
SpyderProof. When I soft proof the adobe church I see "noise-like" 
blotches across the top of the blue sky (all intents). If I soft 
proof in my printing program (QImage) I don't see the blotches.  Is 
Spyder Proof more "severe"?  Also, is there any way to load another 
profile into Spyder Proof (That was not made by Spyder Print)? I 
would like to load the Ilford profile and SpyderProof it to compare 
to the PrintFix profile.  I tried File-Open Profile but I get a 
Windows can not open this file message.

Thanks,
Bob Schoner