Datacolor User to User Support Group.

On Jun 3, 2009, at 2:45 PM, shreymel wrote:

>
>
> Hi
>
> Spider3Print does the same with an HP B9180 using a Mac.
>
> A workaround, like you found is to use Photoshop (or similar) to  
> print the targets.
>
> I have already posted this on the forum, but no one has yet offered  
> a Spider3Print solution.
>
> Having said that, a Universal Binary version of the app would be  
> nice as well!
>
> Shrey
>
>

There's an easy answer for this. (and I think I've already posted it  
here, but
I'll repeat it now).

When you printing from Leopard, you MUST -NOT- CHOOSE COLORSYNC in the
Color Matching section of the Leopard print driver. (In Spyder3Print,
this section of the drive is dual radio buttons, both are selectable;
the leftmost button is ColorSync, and the rightmost button's naming
varies depending on the printer manufacturer. For Epson, it will be
labelled "Epson Color Controls", for Canon, it will be labelled
"Vendor Matching", and for HP.... I'm not sure).

In any case, you MUST NOT choose ColorSync. You need to choose the
other radio button, so in the case of Epson, you MUST CHOOSE
Epson Color Controls.

IN ADDITION to that: you must still turn off color management in the
printer-specific section of the Leopard print dialog.

For Epson: That means choosing both "Epson Color Controls" and
"Off - No Color Management".

For Canon: That means choosing "Vendor Matching" and using the "Off"
setting in a popup that's supposed to appear in the Canon-specific
settings area. This popup only appears if you have a CUPS-compatible
(updated specifically for Leopard) print driver installed, AND if you've
installed it correctly (even CUPS drivers can be installed two different
ways, and with one of those, you never see the popup that lets you turn
color management off).

For HP: That means choosing the rightmost radio button (whatever it's
non-ColorSync labelling is) and then choosing "Application Managed  
Colors"
in the HP section of the driver.

Sorry that we can't do anything ourselves to make any of this simpler;
this is all beyond our control, we can only observe what happens with
different iterations of printer drivers and operating systems and
how they interact, and then try to keep up with documenting this for
our users.


David Miller
Senior Software Developer, Digital Color Solutions
Datacolor