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Adam73
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p.1 #1 · New to printing Spyder3 Studio SR

Ok so I finally spent the money to by a monitor and printer calibrator system.

I bought the Spyder3 Studio SR. I got the monitor calibrated with no problems. I did a custom color profile for my Epson R2880 printer. I printed out the 255 color blocks and used the scanner to scan each color box and made the profile.

What I'm not sure is how to use the profile.

What I did was open a photo in CS4 and print. I chose let photoshop control the colors and chose the profile created. The print came out very dark and horrible. Am I supposed to let the printer choose to control color? If so how do I tell the printer to use the profile created with Spyder3 printer calibration tool?

When I didn't use a calibration tool and just chose to let the printer control the color and chose "Epson sRGB auto" The prints came out pretty good just didn't pop.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

-Adam

Nov 19, 2009 at 04:39 PM

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p.1 #2 · New to printing Spyder3 Studio SR

Did you disable the colour management in the printer dialogue? You need to set this to "no color management"

Gordon

Nov 19, 2009 at 09:47 PM

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p.1 #3 · New to printing Spyder3 Studio SR

What flash said. also if in photoshop print dialog, you already selected the printer profile that you created with Spyder. Rendering intent set to saturation, images are in sRGB - that's what worked for me. My printing had never been easyer.

I do not have R2880, but these settings worked both for R220 and HP 130nr. Whatch other options that you may have activated or deactivated like black or white compensation...

Nov 20, 2009 at 03:50 AM

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p.1 #4 · New to printing Spyder3 Studio SR

"No Color management" thats the key. thanks guys.

Nov 20, 2009 at 05:35 PM

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