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Hi David,

Much appreciated, the tech support at Canon was woefully inadequate on this - the option is there in the Windows driver, so why no parity on the Mac? Seems odd of Canon since a good deal of design/photo professionals like Macs and the Canon MG series is currently the only A4 sized printer with grey inks, as far as I'm aware (and the output looks pretty good).

OK will do that over the next day or so, as I like to leave the targets to dry overnight. I can print them from a friend's PC laptop if it'll give me a better target with 'none' selected in colour management, though? Or is the sRGB exactly the same for that purpose?

Cheers,

James

On 4 Dec 2011, at 03:23, David Miller <dm2363@...> wrote:

> 
> On Dec 2, 2011, at 8:51 AM, James W wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I just purchased a Spyder3 Print SR for use with a couple of printers. I'm having trouble with my A4 photo printer, a Canon MG6150, in the printer driver settings as I can't find a setting to 'disable colour management' to print out the test patches, etc. I'm running Mac OSX 10.7 (Lion) with all the latest updates and the latest Canon drivers.
> > 
> > There seem to be two colour management options 'Colorsync' which appears to apply icc profiles, and Canon Color Management (I have no idea what this one does). There is not a checkbox I can see to turn either off, it's one of the other.
> > 
> > In a different set of settings, there is the Color Options tab. In here there are settings to alter colour balance, saturation, brightness, etc. and options like 'standard' or 'vivid photo'. I've left them all set to 0 and 'Standard'. I don't know if you select 'Canon Color Management in the other box whether the settings then come down to this other section and I can try different settings here.
> > 
> > What is the best driver setting for this please?
> > 
> > Best,
> > James
> > 
> 
> James,
> 
> This is how you should print the target:
> 
> - The Canon drivers stopped having a "None" setting for color management several
> versions ago. The only way to get them to do the right thing "now" is to work
> around this.
> 
> - In the Color Matching section of the OSX print dialog: choose ColorSync, and
> then choose sRGB as the profile using the popup underneath that. Then in the printer
> settings section, choose your paper type and output quality/resolution etc. but
> don't change anything else that's related to color.
> 
> - Print the target that way and measure it; then use the File:Open Data command
> in Spyder3Print to open the folder that contains your measurement files. Find the
> one that you've created, from this newly printed target, and email a copy of it
> to me at dmiller@datacolor.com so that I can take a quick look at it for you. (But
> if you do these things correctly, then you should be able to build a good profile
> from this target print and you should be able to print properly through it).
> 
> David Miller
> Senior Software Developer, Digital Color Solutions
> Datacolor
> 
>