Datacolor User to User Support Group.

On Feb 8, 2010, at 6:54 AM, Tim Mimpriss wrote:

>  With the newer
> dialogues, to achieve the same result, I select "Epson Color Controls"
> in the Color Matching tab, and "Off (No Color Adjustment)" in the  
> Print
> Settings tab (just as you describe for printing the target sheets).  
> This
> gave me the desired results with OS-X 10.5.x; but with 10.6.x, the OS
> seems to override my choice in the Color Matching tab, in a somewhat
> erratic fashion. When I CAN select "Epson Color Controls" in the Color
> Matching tab (and, of course, "Off (No Color Adjustment)" under Print
> settings, the prints come out fine.
>
>

That won't happen if you're printing that target sheets directly from
within Spyder3Print. Both of those radio buttons are enabled and you
can choose between them; nothing overrides and forces your choice to
ColorSync.

If you're printing from Adobe applications (Photoshop and Lightroom):
yes, what you say is true, but you shouldn't be printing target sheets
from Lightroom (if you are: that's going to be the problem); and
the normal method for printing targets isn't from Photoshop, either;
I wouldn't recommend it at this point under Snow Leopard.
> I have always understood that the Colorsync setting allows the  
> driver to
> select the profile linked to the media choice when you allow the  
> printer
> to control color management; but I am open to correction.
>
>

If you're seeing what you're describing when printing targets, then
you're not printing them directly from Spyder3Print; if so, that's
the solution: print them as described, directly from Spyder3Print.


David Miller
Senior Software Developer, Digital Color Solutions
Datacolor