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I've recently bought a Spyder 3 Print, and I'm trying to calibrate 
two Mitsubishi dye-sub printers that I use for school photo packages. 
I'd like to get the output of the two as close as possible, as prints 
from each printer go into the same package of photos. 

I've created profiles for both, but I'm seeing dramatic differences 
in the output (through Qimage). There is a bit of a difference in the 
base paper tone, but the results seem to go far beyond this, with one 
printer very warm with a slight green cast, and the other shifting to 
cool / cyan. This is after several attempts.

Because of the volume of images involved, I don't want to have to 
create different versions of the files for each printer.

I've tried reading the help files, but they assume more knowledge of 
colour management than I currently have.

I can currently get a closer match my tweaking the output in the 
printer drivers than I can by turnng off colour management and using 
the profiles. I'm a bit stuck as to how to proceed. Can anyone point 
me in the right direction?

Vincent MacNamara

On May 14, 2008, at 3:53 AM, Vincent MacNamara wrote:

> I've recently bought a Spyder 3 Print, and I'm trying to calibrate
> two Mitsubishi dye-sub printers that I use for school photo packages.
> I'd like to get the output of the two as close as possible, as prints
> from each printer go into the same package of photos.
>
> I've created profiles for both, but I'm seeing dramatic differences
> in the output (through Qimage). There is a bit of a difference in the
> base paper tone, but the results seem to go far beyond this, with one
> printer very warm with a slight green cast, and the other shifting to
> cool / cyan. This is after several attempts.
>
> Because of the volume of images involved, I don't want to have to
> create different versions of the files for each printer.
>
> I've tried reading the help files, but they assume more knowledge of
> colour management than I currently have.
>
> I can currently get a closer match my tweaking the output in the
> printer drivers than I can by turnng off colour management and using
> the profiles. I'm a bit stuck as to how to proceed. Can anyone point
> me in the right direction?
>
>
>
First suggestion: try watching the demo videos, to make sure that you're
actually using Spyder3Print correctly, and not making any mistakes in  
the
process:

http://spyder.datacolor.com/learn_videos.php


David Miller
Senior Software Developer, Digital Color Solutions
Datacolor