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>>bill@... : I installed the Spyder3 Elite using Windows XP Service Pak 3. The monitor  that was calibrated is a Samsung 21 inch LCD SyncMaster 2443BWX. I took a known image and printed it using two different monitors. The images were placed on the same piece of Epson Lustre paper.

Monitor calibration (using the Spyder of whatever flavor or other monitor hardware calibration) with its monitor profile while somewhat related to printing, it is SEPARATE from the printing process so you may be confusing two separate issues.

>>Where  do I place the profile for the monitor? Does it go in   COLOR /  SETTINGS / WORKING SPACES and do I set the paper in the Epson Pre-print  Setup pages? or do I set the paper in CS4?

The monitor profile created by the Spyder Elite is normally automatically placed in \WINDOWS\system32\spool\drivers\color and then when you boot your system, the Spyder software loads the profile setting the video LUTs on your video card and that's pretty much the last time you have to do anything with the monitor profile for the session (until you reboot of course when the monitor profile will again be loaded automatically).

WORKING SPACE in Photoshop is something different--it "uses" the monitor profile (I'd suggest doing a bit of reading on Color Management to more fully understand how/why things are done/used)--and most people set the Photoshop working space to AdobeRGB--this should be one of the options available from within Photoshop when setting up your preferences. I'm still running Photoshop 7 so I'm not sure exactly where this is set in CS4 but in Photoshop 7, it's Edit > Color Settings > Working Spaces > RGB and select whatever you'd like--EXCEPT the monitor profile because it's not a Photoshop Working Space.

When printing, I generally select my paper profile via Photoshop's print screen and on the Epson printer side, after choosing the appropriate Epson paper type and paper size, I choose "No Color Adjustment" (via the Advanced option).

Hope that helps...

Terrie
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