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Thanks Christoph - I went back to the Epson driver dialog and see how to fix the margins. Silly of me. It's just always in the past I do the image sizing in Photoshop which for obvious reasons, is usually the best.

Pat

--- In datacolor_group@yahoogroups.com, "Christoph Fischer" <tarqeq@...> wrote:
>
>  crop the original target and ev. change the text to only one row and
> ev. move it, select the driver (or page settings) with 3mm border on
> every side (on Macos German it is the "maximal" version)  or borderless
> (take care!), in photoshop preview use "Minimize Margins". this way i
> got really larger patches. the resolution is not important, in my opinion.
> J10 is paperwhite
> 
> christoph
> 
> 
> ---original message---
> a1ncsky2  / mcguipe@...
> Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:50:27 +0000 / [datacolor_group] Advice about Spyder3
> Studio
> 
> >As suggested I tried to expand the size of the target using settings in
> >the Epson 2200 Page Setup. There isn't any direct way to set the margins
> >that I can see. Checking the "Minimize Margins" box has no effect on the
> >target size.
> >
> >So, I need to resize in Photoshop.
> >
> >So, I looked in C:\Program Files\Datacolor\Spyder3Print and the only
> >folder I could find with targets was, of course Targets. However, in
> >that folder the only version of the 225 patch target is 92 ppi. Is that
> >ok? Also, it seemed to have patch J10 outlined in black.
> >
> >Am I looking at the right target print file? If not where is it?
> >
> >I sized it up in PS anyway and printed it out. It looks the same as the
> >original sized print. I printed it using Document as source and No Color
> >Management. When I opened it in PS I left it As Is, instead of
> >converting to Adobe.
> >
> >I'd like to make this work since it looks like patch measurement would
> >be much easier.
> >
> >I use Win XP Pro SP3.
> >
> >
> >
>