Datacolor User to User Support Group.

Because your situation differs from mine, don't know if I can help you.
I am able to turn the color management at the preferences with the
printer, having nothing to do with the application program.

I'll sit back and watch other responses, hope I learn something too.

Jim

At 11:52 PM 11/29/2012, you wrote:


>Thanks for the reply James, very comprehensive.
>
>There seems to be quite a difference on a mac. When Photoshop 
>manages colours I see no easy way to disable printer colour 
>management. If I go to print settings > colour matching I see 2 
>greyed out options. ColorSync or Vendor. ColorSync is selected.
>
>Datacolor have as a download a Generic RGB profile that, when used, 
>effectively disables colour management.
>
>As CS6 no longer offers the option to turn off colour management 
>Adobe have a free bit of software > 
><http://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/kb/no-color-management-option-missing.html>http://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/kb/no-color-management-option-missing.html 
>
>
>This is the way I printed out my targets:
>    * Open Colorsync Utility and assign the Datacolor Generic RGB 
> profile to my printer. Hopefully this disables the printer colour 
> managem! ent.
>    * Print the targets using the Adobe Color Printer Utility.
>As it would be much nicer to print the targets directly from the 
>Spyder Print software would this workflow work?
>    * Open Colorsync Utility and assign the Datacolor Generic RGB 
> profile to my printer.
>    * Print from the Spyder Print software.
>I just wanted to be sure that I'm printing the targets correctly.
>
>
>
>

James R. Holtzman
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