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Summary of Contents for Datacolor SpyderPRINT
- Page 1 User Guide...
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Page 2: Table Of Contents
What’s in the Box: ..................... 3 System Requirements: ..................3 Serialization and Activation ................4 Software layout ....................6 SpyderPRINT Software ..................7 Welcome Screen....................7 Before You Begin ....................8 Print Quality Check ................... 9 Media Settings Check ..................10 Begin Profiling .................... -
Page 3: Introduction
Introduction: ® Thank you for purchasing your new Spyder PRINT. This document will offer a step by step guide for using your SpyderPRINT to get the best possible colors from your printer. What’s in the Box: ▪ SpyderPRINT Spectrocolorimeter ▪ Sensor Base ▪... -
Page 4: Serialization And Activation
First, download and install the SpyderPRINT software from the Datacolor website (follow the link included in the package). Next, make sure that your SpyderPRINT is plugged into a USB port on your computer; make sure it is a direct port, not on a keyboard, hub, or extension cable. - 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.
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Page 6: Software Layout
Software layout The software that comes with your 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... -
Page 7: Spyderprint Software
SpyderPRINT Software Welcome Screen When you run the SpyderPRINT software you will be greeted with the Welcome Screen. Here you have two choices, to “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”... -
Page 8: Before You Begin
Before You Begin Printer description and other options: Here you can enter the name of your printer, type of paper and ink used 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. -
Page 9: Print Quality Check
Print Quality Check (optional) Clicking on this will give you a test page to print to ensure that your printer is functioning properly (all inks working and nozzles not clogged). Enter your printer name and any note you would like to add; these will be displayed on the printed page. -
Page 10: Media Settings Check
Media Settings Check (optional) This screen lets you print a "Media Setting Check" image at different driver media settings (paper type, output resolution, etc.) to assure that the media setting choice is optimal before printing a full profiling target for the printer. If the choice is not optimal, then the resulting profile will not have the color range or detail it would have from an optimal setting, and it's likely that prints with these settings will have various kinds of cosmetic issues. -
Page 11: Begin Profiling
Begin Profiling On this screen you will select whether to print and measure 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: Profiling - Print Target
Profiling – Print Target Here you have a number of choices regarding which test target to print out and measure. The EZ Targets have larger, wider patches that make them easier to measure. They print on twice as many sheets of paper as the Classic Targets. Either kind of target, EZ or Classic, can be measured with or without the SpyderGuide. -
Page 13: Printing The Target
Printing the Target After you click "Print Target", the print dialogue box will appear on your computer. Choose the printer you are looking to create 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. - Page 14 (Macintosh) Once color management has been turned off, proceed to print the pages of the target. There is an option, when printing multiple target sheets, to print either all sheets, or just one at a time. To print your targets one sheet at a time, use the small target preview in the Wizard screen to switch to the page you want to print;...
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Page 15: Spectro Calibration
Spectro Calibration Place your Spectro onto its base 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: Profiling - Create Measurement File
Profiling – Create Measurement File On step 1 you will name your Measurement File, which creates a formatted text 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. - Page 17 This is the window that opens whenever you’re going to measure patches from target prints. What you’re seeing is a grid of color patch “slots” that corresponds to the physical patches printed in the Target you chose. The grid is labelled in columns by letter, and in rows by number, to also correspond to the physical target print.
- Page 18 “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 will correct for this uncalibrated state of the printer.
- Page 19 If you switch display 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 If this is your first time measuring patches in a target, you may want to take the brief tutorial on how to read the patches. The tutorial will show you the appropriate speed to read the targets if you’re using strip mode, which measures by row.
- Page 21 Once you are satisfied with your readings, press the next button, this will process and create your profile.
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Page 22: Spyderproof View
SpyderProof View On this page you can preview what an image looks like 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 Editiing
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
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
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: Begin Profiling - Selecting An Existing Measurement File
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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