Datacolor User to User Support Group.

The OS is Win 7. 

I've used ColorVision-DataColor profiling products since about 2002 and (in general) I've been very happy with them, especially the recent Spyder products. 

Now, however, there is no question that I'm doing something radically wrong, and I can't see what it is. The fault is in me and my workflow, not in the SpyderPrint profile, which prints normally when using the SpyderView proofing function within the SpyderPrint program.

I've followed David Miller's advice (see his note above in this thread) compulsively, three times now, after printing out his email and following it step by step to be sure I'm doing everything the way he recommends - which is also the way I've been doing things all along except that I normally print from Qimage, not from PhotoShop [but I followed Mr Miller's recommendations and printed from PS this time]. The result has always been the same - extremely dark prints which might or might not come to resemble the monitor appearance if I adjusted brightness to about a + 15 to 20 level when editing my profile.

I've tried the canned Epson profile for Epson Premium Luster paper, and the result is again the same - prints way too dark to be of any use.

Somewhere in my work flow, I think I must be double profiling - but where, and how?

If anyone has any further suggestions for me, I'll be very grateful. Otherwise, it seems that my choices are to try the most severe sort of "adjusting" [editing] of the SpyderPrint profiles. Right now I can't think of anything else to do.

Bill

--- In datacolor_group@yahoogroups.com, VM <hlhelper@...> wrote:
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> Are you running Mac OS Snow Leopard by chance? I have the same experience with R1800. I think, Epson drivers for R1800 are not fully compatible with SL although Epson claims they are.
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