Datacolor User to User Support Group.

>
> I don't have the entire thread anymore since I deleted it but I seem  
> to
> remember CD or someone addressing the target size question by using  
> the term
> "print thru Windows" and adjusting the margin size in the driver. I  
> print
> the target one of two ways: thru Spyder3 Print or QImage; I was just  
> curious
> if there was another way to print (Other than PhotoShop).
>
>

When he talked about adjusting margins and "print through Windows",
what he really meant was, printing from inside Spyder3Print (the  
internally
generated image that I just wrote about) and adjusting the margin
size in the Windows page setup dialog during the print process.

There isn't any way that I would recommend to print target images
"directly" from Windows. You need to do it either from inside  
Spyder3Print
(the normal way) or from an application that you absolutely know
will be able to fully disable color management when you're printing
the target. The safest way to do this is to print the target, with
color management fully disabled, from within the application that
you'll actually be PRINTING your real images from, and in which you'll
be applying the profile during the printing process. (In your case,
that will be Photoshop or QImage).
> I was also curious about the black box outline for the white square  
> (J10?)
> since the box outline prints when using QImage but not Spyder3  
> Print. The
> box is very helpful since the white square is almost the color of  
> the paper
> and the box helps to align/position the colorimeter.
>
>
>
See my previous posting about why the white box appears in the .tif
version of the image but not in what's internally generated in
Spyder3Print.

You don't "need" this outline, in any way, because the white patch
is simply paper white. You can have the nose of the spectro on the paper
white anywhere on the page when you take that measurement and it won't
make a difference. There's no ink in that "patch", so no need for any
kind of exact positioning; you simply don't want the nose to overlap
onto anything that's actually printed on the paper.


David Miller
Senior Software Developer, Digital Color Solutions
Datacolor