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Congratulations, you have finished building your profile! You can either quit the
program, start building another profile, or continue editing the one you just
created.

Summary of Contents for SpyderPRINT

Page 1: ...User Guide ...

Page 2: ... Screen 7 Before You Begin 8 Print Quality Check 9 Media Settings Check 10 Begin Profiling 11 Profiling Print Target 12 Printing the Target 13 Spectro Calibration 15 Profiling Create Measurement File 16 SpyderProof View 22 Advanced Editiing 23 Save Profile 24 Process Complete 25 Begin Profiling Selecting an existing Measurement File 26 ...

Page 3: ...Spectrocolorimeter Sensor Base SpyderGuide USB cable Welcome Card Including serial number warranty information and download instructions System Requirements USB Port Windows 7 32 64 Windows 8 0 8 1 32 64 Windows 10 32 64 Mac OS X 10 7 or higher Monitor Resolution 1280x768 or greater 16 bit video card 24 recommended 1 GB of available RAM 500MB of available hard disk space Internet connection for so...

Page 4: ...mputer make sure it is a direct port not on a keyboard hub or extension cable Enter your serial number located on the welcome card or license code from your email if you have already registered the software on another machine With the easy automated activation please make sure that your computer is connected to the internet and that no firewall blocks your software from communicating with the Data...

Page 5: ...Save the email with the license code You will need either this or the original serial number from the card in the SpyderPRINT package if you want to use the device on another computer ...

Page 6: ...ur SpyderPRINT is a wizard which will walk you through the process step by step We have outlined the steps below to help you through the process There are a few differences between the Windows and Mac versions that will be highlighted when necessary ...

Page 7: ... Learn about Color Management or to Profile Your Printer If you are new to Color Management you may want to go through the Learn about Color Management section to learn more about the process and familiarize yourself with the terms and concepts before getting started Once you are confident you can click on the Profile Your Printer and click Next ...

Page 8: ...d and any driver media settings you may be using This information will be printed automatically at the bottom of the profiling target sheets to help keep track of the settings that you will eventually use when actually printing the target sheets It is not necessary to fill in all of the fields but can be useful down the road ...

Page 9: ...l be displayed on the printed page You can also choose whether to print a full page or just use a quarter page by selecting the Full Sheet check box Next click on the Print Quality Check Image box to proceed A Page Setup box will appear Choose the printer you wish to use paper size and orientation We recommend using landscape mode when printing full sheets Next a Print dialogue box will appear che...

Page 10: ...nts with these settings will have various kinds of cosmetic issues The basic idea is to print this image with color management turned off in the driver the same way the target sheets will eventually be printed so that you can see how the same kind of color squares will eventually print with one or more profiling target sheets An example of not optimal would be using the wrong paper type setting fo...

Page 11: ...easure a Target or Select an existing measurement Click Print and Measure a Target to create a new profile Click Select an Existing Measurement File to view adjust or build profiles from a previously created measurement set Go to Page 26 to learn more about this setting ...

Page 12: ...ithout the SpyderGuide The purpose of the guide is to help you align the Spectro with the rows of patches while moving from left to right whether you re measuring by patch or strip Most printers will perform well with the High Quality Target with or without Extended Grays With some printer configurations it can be beneficial to print the extra set of Extended Grays for your profile target sheet se...

Page 13: ...reate a profile for select the appropriate paper size set to landscape orientation 25 inch margins 635 centimeters print single sided and then we need to turn off any color management features On a Windows machine this means turning on Barrier Free color management On a Macintosh you want to turn off Color Sync and select in Printer Windows ...

Page 14: ... process for each sheet in the target With multi sheet targets each sheet will be automatically labeled with a page number You must measure the sheets in the proper order to build a correct printer profile We recommend that you let the target sheets dry for at least 15 minutes after printing Depending on the printer paper and ink set you may want to wait longer Some inks develop deepen and darken ...

Page 15: ...e and press the button on the top this will create a white balance for your Spectro Make sure the white tile of the base is clean and the Spectro is aligned properly on it It is critically important to calibrate properly to assure accurate measurements ...

Page 16: ...t file that will contain the measurements you are about to take Click Save On step 2 you will be starting with an empty measurement file that you created in step 1 Click on the Open Patch Reading Screen button to begin the measurement process for the set of target sheet s that you ve printed and allowed to dry ...

Page 17: ...y mode for the window defaults to Split the other choices are Pure and Measured When in Split mode each patch rectangle is drawn in 2 colors the upper left corner of the rectangle is drawn in the pure RGB color that exists for that patch in the target The pure color is the raw RGB color that was sent through the printer driver and which when the target has been correctly printed will have produced...

Page 18: ...ese Pure colors are ideal and simply represent the colors in the target image before you printed it When you print the target correctly all color management turned off the resulting target print will be uncalibrated and the printed color patches will look different than these Pure ideals When you measure these uncalibrated patches in the target print SpyderPRINT will then calculate a profile that ...

Page 19: ...play mode to Measured then all of the rectangles in the Target window are filled only with the measured color Here this means that the entire window appears with empty white patches because nothing has been measured yet ...

Page 20: ... comfortable you can begin reading your own target Place the Spectro on the first patch on the next line and repeat Once this page is finished click on the 2nd page and that will appear repeat until all pages have been read Once finished you can review your targets if there is a red box around the patch it should be read again this indicates some sort of an error with that particular patch While i...

Page 21: ...Once you are satisfied with your readings press the next button this will process and create your profile ...

Page 22: ...ke when soft proofed vs not soft proofed Select your rendering intent either Saturations Perceptual Relative Colorimetric or Absolute Colorimetric Click on the Soft proof button below to see the difference You can zoom into the images to see them enlarged or to zoom out ...

Page 23: ...Advanced Editing If you wish to make changes to your profile you can click on the Advanced editing button to bring up a series of sliders to make changes to your profile ...

Page 24: ...Save Profile Once you are happy with your profile enter a name for it usually with the printer and paper type and click save ...

Page 25: ...Process Complete Congratulations you have finished building your profile You can either quit the program start building another profile or continue editing the one you just created ...

Page 26: ...in and re read any or all of your patches and once done you can view the results in SpyderProof as well as edit them under Advanced Editing Once completed you can re save this file under a new or the existing name Datacolor Spyder and SpyderPRINT are trademarks or registered trademarks of Datacolor Copyright 2015 Datacolor All rights reserved ...

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