Datacolor User to User Support Group.

Hi.
I know i've asked this before and so has probably others but i believe 
it's still justified. I want a larger patch size option for ease of 
measurement. It would be best if the current size (it can't get any 
smaller than current setup)  is the minimum and then there would be a 
medium and then large or even super size patch. 

I know one can minimize the margins and on the epson TX100 drivers i 
could also enlarge the test print (but it does get off centred and 
luckily all the patches were still on the paper). Sometimes minimizing 
the margins still produce a pretty tight patch for reading.

Most of the effort in measuring the patches goes to aligning and 
centering the reader over the patches. And its' very tight currently so 
it does slow down the whole process when i have to be sure i don't make 
a mistake by including another small piece of the next patch. I know 
some of you can crank out a reading over mere minutes but i do get a 
bit cross-eyed and need to take a few breaks or else i'll make a 
mistake.

There is still a lot of white spaces all round the patches and we can 
also forgo the notes area below for the patches to grow.

Can we have it the next version - hopefully very very soon? - Please.

Thank-you.

Ed.

If your peinter will only print letter/A4 size, there are quartered  
225 patch target files in the Targets folder. Print those on letter or  
A4 from Photoshop, using the "size to fit" option in the driver, and  
assemble after printing into a 16 x 20 sheet. That should be quite  
easy to read. If your printer will print larger sheets, then all the  
targets will print with larger patches on any larger sheet size,  
direct from the application.

C. D. Tobie
WW Product Technology Mngr.
Digital Imaging & Home Theater
DataColor.com
CDTobie@...

On Jan 2, 2009, at 8:01 PM, "edmcgrath18" <edmcgrath18@...> wrote:

> Hi.
> I know i've asked this before and so has probably others but i believe
> it's still justified. I want a larger patch size option for ease of
> measurement. It would be best if the current size (it can't get any
> smaller than current setup)  is the minimum and then there would be a
> medium and then large or even super size patch.
>
> I know one can minimize the margins and on the epson TX100 drivers i
> could also enlarge the test print (but it does get off centred and
> luckily all the patches were still on the paper). Sometimes minimizing
> the margins still produce a pretty tight patch for reading.
>
> Most of the effort in measuring the patches goes to aligning and
> centering the reader over the patches. And its' very tight currently  
> so
> it does slow down the whole process when i have to be sure i don't  
> make
> a mistake by including another small piece of the next patch. I know
> some of you can crank out a reading over mere minutes but i do get a
> bit cross-eyed and need to take a few breaks or else i'll make a
> mistake.
>
> There is still a lot of white spaces all round the patches and we can
> also forgo the notes area below for the patches to grow.
>
> Can we have it the next version - hopefully very very soon? - Please.
>
> Thank-you.
>
> Ed.
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------------
>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>

Hi Mr Tobie,

I'm trying to avoid printing it through photoshop at this stage as 
i'm afraid i'll add in some other variances that could affect the 
measurements. I'll rather print it from the Spyderprint/printfix pro 
application - when i do that i know i have produced the correct patch 
printouts. In photoshop - There'll be too many settings in the 
photoshop print dialog for to screw-up.

Thank-you.

--- In colorvision_group@yahoogroups.com, Cdtobie <CDTobie@...> wrote:
>
> If your peinter will only print letter/A4 size, there are 
quartered  
> 225 patch target files in the Targets folder. Print those on letter 
or  
> A4 from Photoshop, using the "size to fit" option in the driver, 
and  
> assemble after printing into a 16 x 20 sheet. That should be quite  
> easy to read. If your printer will print larger sheets, then all 
the  
> targets will print with larger patches on any larger sheet size,  
> direct from the application.
> 
> C. D. Tobie
> WW Product Technology Mngr.
> Digital Imaging & Home Theater
> DataColor.com
> CDTobie@...
> 
> On Jan 2, 2009, at 8:01 PM, "edmcgrath18" <edmcgrath18@...> wrote:
> 
> > Hi.
> > I know i've asked this before and so has probably others but i 
believe
> > it's still justified. I want a larger patch size option for ease 
of
> > measurement. It would be best if the current size (it can't get 
any
> > smaller than current setup)  is the minimum and then there would 
be a
> > medium and then large or even super size patch.
> >
> > I know one can minimize the margins and on the epson TX100 
drivers i
> > could also enlarge the test print (but it does get off centred and
> > luckily all the patches were still on the paper). Sometimes 
minimizing
> > the margins still produce a pretty tight patch for reading.
> >
> > Most of the effort in measuring the patches goes to aligning and
> > centering the reader over the patches. And its' very tight 
currently  
> > so
> > it does slow down the whole process when i have to be sure i 
don't  
> > make
> > a mistake by including another small piece of the next patch. I 
know
> > some of you can crank out a reading over mere minutes but i do 
get a
> > bit cross-eyed and need to take a few breaks or else i'll make a
> > mistake.
> >
> > There is still a lot of white spaces all round the patches and we 
can
> > also forgo the notes area below for the patches to grow.
> >
> > Can we have it the next version - hopefully very very soon? - 
Please.

> >
> > Thank-you.
> >
> > Ed.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ------------------------------------
> >
> > Yahoo! Groups Links
> >
> >
> >
>

I'm away from home so I can't try this myself, but how does the
software react if you edit the target image file?

I've edited mine quite a bit -- moving the row and column labels much
closer to the swatches and cropping the white margins off to make more
room for the color swatches -- but then I've printed the target
through QImage, so I don't know if you could just print the edited
copy through Spider Print or not. 

--Drew