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thanks. i'll try to go on with the spyder.
some canned profiles print quite neutral,  i.e. the result is
satisfying. some corrected spyder profiles work well in some cases. i'll
have the choice.
if i'll be very rich one day, i'll buy an x-rite... eventually
christoph

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CDTobie  / CDTobie@...
Tue, 9 Jun 2009 12:18:41 -0400 / Re: [datacolor_group] Re: Advice about
Spyder3Studio


>
>>ok. i repeat, what i've written in my very recent posts:  my printer
>>(epson2100) 
>>produces a cyan-green color cast . spyderprint turns it in a green-
>>yellow cast
>>
>It appears you are saying canned profiles for this printer do not
>produce neutral prints? If not, it may be an unsolvable issue... If X-
>Rite tools can magically fix it and Datacolor ones cannot (and this
>happens once in a while in one direction, once in a while in the other)
>then you may be obliged to choose your profiling tools accordingly. If
>neither one will produce neutral prints, you'll probably need to accept
>that the printer is not going to print acceptable color, and at your
>options for a newer printer.
>
>
>C. David Tobie
>Global Product Technology Manager
>Digital Imaging & Home Theater
>Datacolor
>CDTobie@...
>www.datacolor.com/Spyder3
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: christoph fischer <tarqeq@...>
>To: datacolor_group@yahoogroups.com
>Sent: Mon, 8 Jun 2009 8:41 pm
>Subject: [datacolor_group] Re: Advice about Spyder3Studio
>
>ok. i repeat, what i've written in my very recent posts:  my printer
>(epson2100) 
>produces a cyan-green color cast . spyderprint turns it in a green-
>yellow cast 
>and blue becomes purple (also see message 3386). i understand how the 
>application is working, i understand the manual etc. the swiss supporters 
>examined my printer and the spyder device which seemed to functioning
>correctly. 
>we discussed the problem and questions of drivers and settings (photoshop 
>manages colors, no
>color adjustment by the driver etc), however there was no solution. 
>
>- i've tried a lot of different driver settings as well as the gimp print 
>driver. the color cast is clearly visible in every case. The epson
>support said 
>there might be a problem with the datacolor software or device; the swiss 
>datacolor support said, there might be a problem with the epson 2100...
> i hope to find some better answers here. 
>
>- as we know, x-rite products allow this printer to print blue color.
>how is it 
>possible to achieve it with spyderprint?
>thanks for your help.
>christoph
>
>
>--- In datacolor_group@yahoogroups.com, CDTobie <CDTobie@...> wrote:
>>
>> 
>> Sorry, can't tell what you are saying, or what you are asking, or what
>you are 
>referring to. Please write complete sentences with clear content (and
>quotes, if 
>they reference something), so that we can get over the language issue,
>and into 
>the technical issue.
>> 
>> 
>> C. David Tobie
>> WW Product Technology Manager
>> Digital Imaging & Home Theater
>> Datacolor
>> CDTobie@...
>> www.datacolor.com/Spyder3
>> 
>> www.colorvision.com
>> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: christoph fischer <tarqeq@...>
>> To: datacolor_group@yahoogroups.com
>> Sent: Mon, 8 Jun 2009 10:31 am
>> Subject: [datacolor_group] Re: Advice about Spyder3Studio
>
>> 
>> i hardly can believe, that it should be possible to get a neutral gray 
>gradient. 
>> printing a target without profile yet produces a strong green (ev.
>cyan cast). 
>i 
>> thought, this is normal with this printer, isn't it?
>> 
>> however there are several standard profiles working well. e.g. from ilford 
>> permajet, (including an custom profile made by permajet. Moreover these 
>profiles 
>> are printing real blue!
>> thanks for help or, at least,  explanation...
>> 
>> christoph