Datacolor User to User Support Group.

A few days ago I bought a new (for me) paper, and set about profiling  
it. I don't recall having any problems with the process once I got  
over the initial confusions and errors.

I am using a Macbook Pro, running the Mac version of Spyder3Print.

This time, though, the result was way off.   So I started all over  
again, thinking I'd just made some silly error.  I then noticed that  
when I tried to print the high quality target from within  
Spyder3Print, the Epson print dialogue that came up included the item  
"Color Matching", and this item gave me the choice of  
"ColorSync" [which uses existing color profiles] or "Epson Color  
Controls".  There was no choice for "No color management".

I then called up the high quality target in Photoshop and printed it  
that way, setting Color Management to "no color management".  When the  
Epson print dialogue came up, ColorSync gave me no options (since  
color management was turned off).  This time the resulting profile was  
pretty much as I expected.

Has anyone else had a problem with printing targets from Spyder3Print  
on the 4880 with a Mac?

I have no idea when this behaviour started.  It is as though  
Spyder3Print cannot, or does not, turn off or disable color management  
in the printer driver.

OS X 10.5.7
Printer driver  Epson SP 4880 version 6.12
Spyder3Print 3.5b9

Myron