Datacolor User to User Support Group.

Several comments that may be of assistance:

Your white tile reading is good. (Tuo l'inglese e molto bene, anchi)  
Your printer profiling process also looks right.

If you are seeing brighter images on screen than in print, you  
probably need to set a lower display luminance when calibrating your  
monitor. Not my job to tell you how to do that; since you are using  
the competition's product... ; )

Softproofing for most gloss media will drop the image brightness on  
screen, since the media is not very white. To adjust the brightness of  
gloss whites, increase the L* value in the Ref White control.  
Similarly, to darken blacks on matte media, lower the L* value in Ref  
Black.

If you like the effect of BPC, feel free to use it. However, it can't  
make your blacks any darker, and on those occasions where it makes  
blacks lighter, people tend to get upset.

You may be "going wrong" from some of the above,  or other settings  
which can require "dialing in"; or it could be your expectations of  
exact and automatic matching.

Ciao,
C. D. Tobie
Global Product Technology Mngr.
Digital Imaging & Home Theater
Datacolor.com
CDTobie@...

On Feb 9, 2009, at 1:47 PM, Giorgio <gior.cap@...> wrote:

>
> Hi,
> I'm pretty new to C.M.  and I'm trying to be confident with  Spyder 3
> and its profiles.....
>
> My setup: Monitor Eizo S1931 (I'm not a professional, therefore I  
> assume
> this is  quite a good monitor for a lover) duly calibrated with  
> EyeOne,
> printer Epson 1400 and, of course, Printfix pro spectro with
> Spyder3print sw vers. 3.5b9; profiles comes from 225 patches target.
> Photoshop CS4settings:  let's Cs4 manages colours, (printer profile  
> made
> by Spyderprint) saturation intent, no BCP.
> Printer drivers selected: paper type Epson Glossy plus (same as  
> printer
> profiling, of course), no ICM, high speed unchecked, print borderless.
> Spectro was duly calibrated on the white tile before the process. I  
> have
> calibrate the device then measured the white tile from the Tools >
> Measure menu item: the white tile is L* 90,48 and a* -1,00 b* -1,23.
>
> The print: no colour cast, good colours, saturation ok,everything is
> good but...... there is less brightness if I compare it with the  
> image I
> see at the monitor (also considering the different type of light).
> Also if I softproof  the image (again: printer profile, no bpc,
> saturation intent) I see that the image fall down in brightness....
> Better prints I see if I check BPC: more brightness (therefore better
> prints, but BPC should be left UNchecked, isn't it?) but again a  
> little
> far from what I expect.
>
> Why? what happens and where I'm wrong?
>
> Tks
> Giorgio from Italy
>
> - apologizing for his english:-) -
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