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The current Datacolor Spyder products SpyderX Pro and SpyderX Elite software version 5.8, Spyder5EXPRESS, Spyder5PRO and Spyder5ELITE software version 5.8, Spyder Checkr software version 1.5 are compatible with macOS 11 Big Sur. These software versions ...
Are Spyder5, SpyderPRINT, SpyderCHECKR and Spyder4 working with the new macOS Catalina 10.15?   SPYDERX SpyderX Software works on macOS Catalina 10.15   SPYDER5 Spyder5 Software-Update installers are already published and available in 64-bit v...
Use whichever intent suits your taste, and works well with your images. The Saturation intent may offer brighter colors, while Relative Colorimetric may offer the best match to spot colors and prepress files. Perceptual offers a result in between Saturati...
Printing black and white images with color inks is, in many ways, the most difficult function for color printers, and for color profiles. Some printers and their inks are sufficiently consistent and neutral that an ICC profile can be used for B&W printing...
You can leave these spaces blank, and as a result blanks will be printed onto your profiling target, to be filled in by hand. But it’s a better idea to fill the info in on the computer. This avoids accidentally mislabeling a target, and also means that yo...
The items you miss include a check of your printer’s functionality, and the opportunity to choose the most appropriate media setting for your printer, ink, and paper. If you are sure that these steps are not necessary in your case, then feel free to skip ...
If you then continue with the preprofiling screens, the Media Setting Check screen will assist you in determining the optimal media setting for your printer, inks, and paper. You can fill in your media setting at that point, once you have determined which...
Not all printers have nozzle-specific tests available, and not all users run a driver level check before beginning the profiling process. So it’s a good idea to run the PQ Check in our software before spending the time building a profile. The channel step...
Yes, you can define your own margins in the driver to increase the size of the target print. This has the fringe benefit for making target reading faster, as there is less precision needed in placing the spectro on each patch.
Both use the same amount of paper and ink, so there’s no difference in materials costs. It takes a couple of minutes longer to read the extra patches in the 225 patch target, so time is seldom a consideration. And the results from the 225 patch target are...
There is a folder named “Targets” in the Spyder3Print folder. It contains TIFF versions of the profiling targets. You can print these as they are, or make adjustments in an image editing application, to resize them, or tag them as needed for your printer.
This only occurs at first launch of the application. It is necessary as Spyder3Print uses your page size and orientation to create on-screen previews of targets and test images. Be sure to choose Landscape mode, as that is the intended orientation for Spy...
Spyder3Print requires you to calibrate your Spectro the first time you run through the wizard after launching the application. It will not require recalibration unless you leave the application open for more than four hours, or quit and restart the applic...
Use the “Select Existing Measurement Set" option. Then choose the earlier measurement set from the popdown list, and navigate to the first empty patch with the arrow keys before restarting your measurements. If you have not yet calibrated your spectro thi...
The easiest and fastest solution is to move between the SpyderProof view screen and the Editing controls screen, and adjust the controls as desired, making a print only after you have achieved the optimal softproof on screen.
Black & White softproof settings only effect an images proof preview in applications that use the printer profile to offer a softproof of printed images. These settings are used to adjust the softproof view to make it a more precise match to the print. Th...
Many color lasers can use the type of RGB printer profiles that Spyder3Print builds. You can try using a sample Spyder3Print profile to see if your printer will apply it. Even though it may make the color worse instead of better, if will indicate whether ...
Yes, Spyder3Print makes excellent mini-lab and digital photo lab profiles. The help in the application focuses mostly on end user printers, but there are sections covering remote profiling that are applicable to mini-labs.
First, print one of the color targets (either 225 or 729 patches; I'd suggest starting with 225, to keep things simple, then try again with 729 later if you like). Then print the Extended Grays target. If you do the 225 colors and the 238 extended gr...
Spyder3Print builds -only- RGB printer profiles; it doesn't build CMYK printer profiles. (This has nothing to do with the kind of inks that are in these printers. There are no printers with RGB -inks-. All printers have CMYK inks, with typically some l...
Spyder3Print and the Datacolor 1005 spectro (which are the printer profiling portion of the Spyder3Studio bundle) will be able to nicely profile your CX6000, within its gamut limits (see comments below on 4 color vs. 6 or 8 color printing technology) T...
The answer is: no, you can't share profiles that you build on a public forum, such as the Yahoo group. You can't build a profile and make it publicly available; post it to an Internet forum; mass-mail it to groups of people; or bundle it with any kind of ...
Spyder3Print includes segmented 4x6 target files that allow users to print a letter/A4 size target in quarters on a 4x6 printer from Photoshop, recombine the printed quarters, and read the target back in as usual. CD targets (for custom profiling pr...
There's a problem between the Canon 9500 driver and OSX/Leopard when trying to print targets with color management disabled. This happens in all non-Photoshop apps that we've tried, and Canon is the only printer driver that behaves (incorrectly) this way....
I think you need a little more explanation and understanding for how Advanced B&W mode works in the Epson driver. This is a special printing mode of the Epson driver; it uses primarily the black, light black, and light light black inks for printing, an...
You may have heard the Urban Legend that a spectrophotometer is reflective device (reads patches on paper), and a colorimeter is an emissive device (reads displays). Not actually true. There is another one, often combined with the first, that spectrophot...
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