Spider3 Printer Calibrator Can you Help

[impresslb]

Hello,
I am a newbe with color calibration. Please be patient with me.

I recently purchased the Spyder3 Studio with both Spyder3 Print and Spider 3 Elite (monitor Calibration). I found the monitor calibration to be easy using the basic settings , I did not dare for now go to the advanced tabs.

My question is: After I calibrate the monitor, do I need to change anything in Photoshop or Illustrator ? Do I need to select this monitor only in the RGB tab of the Color Settings in Photoshop CS3 ??? ANything else I need to do for the monitor as far as the adobe softwares are concerend ?

Now as far as Printer calibration, I ran the Spyder3 Print, and then printed out a 150 patch normal quality proof full of the color sqaures (the basic option in the software) , I then measure every one of the patches with the supplied Spectro and then saved the profile as instructed. Now what ?

From here on, i dont know what to put where in Photoshop CS3 , there are tabs for RGB, CMYK, DOT GAIN, and there are a million options for SWOP , Euroscale etc.....

Where Should I load the printer profle ?

Whatshould be the other setting under color Settings in CS3 ?

I am only interested in CMYK , as I dont print pantone or RGB.

Sorry for the complex question but I really need some help.

Thank you.

F. Rebeiz
impress@destination.com.lb

[Medley]

Ok. Good job so far! You're very close now.

The next thing to do is find out where to store your printer profile. It needs to be stored somewhere that Photoshop can find it. I'm on a Mac, so I can't give you specific help there. What I did though was do a search on your computer for the file's extension ( in my case- .icc). That gave me the folder these things were stored in.

Once you have that done, that's pretty much it! Now, when you open an image in Photoshop, go to Edit> Convert to Profile. Your printer's profile should now appear on the drop-down menu (because you have it in the right folder). Choose it, and click OK. PS now converts the file to your printer's colors.....which you are seeing correctly because your monitor is profiled also.

- Joe U.

[impresslb]

Thanks so much for your help.

I have done all that , but somehow when I Screen proof or even print the colors are wrong completely.

The colors, especially the red , has lost all richness and is looking orangy. The whole image look like its too bright.

This is both for the proofing and the printing.

I am using a pixma IP3000 printer.

I am leaving photoshop to calibrate the colors, using North America Pre-Press as the main space in Photoshop. There must be something wrong in the Photoshop Setting I have clicked.

When I calibrated with Spyder, I left it at saturation and then clicked saturation in the printer driver as well.

Any suggestions ?

Thanks

F. Rebeiz

[tayl0124]

First of all you need to be using the same ink/paper combo that you profiled. Second you have to tell photoshop to use that profile when printing. Also click on page setup and make sure that all image correction is turned off in the printers settings. I don't have a pixma, but my epson will allow me to have the color correction turned on even when photoshop manages the colors. Hopes this helps. If you can't get it to work, maybe you should just send me the spyder 3 hardware and software. J/k