Datacolor User to User Support Group.

>>Bob Petruska <petruska@...>: 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.

My guess is that you were using Canon paper? If so, I don't find it remarkable that you got a good print since one would hope that Canon has created reasonable profiles for their own paper and I think it's prefectly reasonable and practical to use Canon's profile(s) with Canon paper(s)...

I'm a bit confused when you say "I just turned off the Spyder profiles". If you are talking about the paper profiles created with the Spyder3Print, there is no need to "turn off" the paper profile and I'm wondering if perhaps you have been double profiling when printing.

What OS are you running--mac? pc? 

If pc, which flavor--W2k? XP? Vista?

For XP (and perhaps Vista), via the Control Panel > Printers >YourCanonPrinter > Properties > Color Management, do you by any chance have "Automatic" chosen? If so, choose "Manual" instead because with "Automatic" chosen, you could be applying more than one paper profile when you print and it could very well be that when you printed your Spyder3Print targets, a paper profile was applied which is not what you want to do...

Terrie
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