Datacolor User to User Support Group.

On Aug 27, 2009, at 2:17 PM, Bob Petruska wrote:

> The other day I just turn off the Spyder profiles, turned on the
> Canon standard printer driver, checked auto, and WOW the printed skin
> tones matched my monitor image perfectly!  All printed colors were a
> significantly closer match to the monitor than the Spyder3Print  
> profiles.
>
> What is wrong here?  I would think that the Sypder would generate
> profiles as good or better than the Canon standard printer driver in
> auto mode!  Does Canon perform some magic tweaking of their profiles
> to produce great color matching that can't be accomplished by Spyder  
> profiling?

Well, I  must own a dozen models of Canon printers, and I've certainly  
never found the canned profiles, or default output, to be as good as  
custom profiles with any of them, even on Canon's own media. So I  
suspect that your process may have a flaw in it. Such as how you turn  
off color management in the driver, or how you are softproofing images  
to compare them on screen, to the printed output, or perhaps some  
other factor.


C. David Tobie
Global Product Technology Manager
Digital Imaging & Home Theater
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