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Thanks David, I'll give that a try.

I had a preset which set Application Managed Colour when used in Photoshop etc, but it seems in Spider3Print, it does something slightly different. It does not select Vendor Matching in the Color Matching section.

I'll report back once I have tried it.

Shrey

--- In datacolor_group@yahoogroups.com, David Miller <dm2363@...> wrote:
>
> 
> 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
>