Datacolor User to User Support Group.

>>The test prints within Spyder3 Print are fine, especially the quadrant with faces and skintones. This must indicate that the profile is working, yet output from CS5 and Lightroom 3 have a distinct red cast and are darker than the profiled monitor.

>>Printing using CS5 and the profile but, with the Epson driver handling the printing,  results in good prints and better than the Epson stock profiles. Ditto for Lightroom.

Touring state whether the PS and LR results are less accurate than those from S3P, but given your title I'm assuming they are at least somewhat different. If so, you can try this test:

Convert the Spyder3Print "Matrix Large" test image from the test image folder to your custom output profile in Photoshop.  Then assign sRGB to the image if using Snow Leopard  (this would be genericRGB in Leopard). Note that the first operation is a conversion, the second assigns, instead of converts. Now print this image, and choose sRGB as the profile in the ColorSync section of the driver, if that's possible with your driver. See if the resulting print now matches your test image printed directly from Spyser3Print. If so, you have found your culprit: a printing workflow which cannot correctly convert to a custom profile. 

C. D. Tobie
Global Product Technology Mngr.
Digital Imaging & Home Theater
Datacolor.com
CDTobie@Datacolor.com

On Aug 22, 2010, at 8:52 AM, "grandpollo" <grandpollo@...> wrote:

> The test prints within Spyder3 Print are fine, especially the quadrant with faces and skintones. This must indicate that the profile is working, yet output from CS5 and Lightroom 3 have a distinct red cast and are darker than the profiled monitor.
> 
> Printing using CS5 and the profile but, with the Epson driver handling the printing,  results in good prints and better than the Epson stock profiles. Ditto for Lightroom.