Help with Spyder2 monitor calibration problem

[EotyLMB]

My system has been working fine but thought I needed to move to a hardware calibrator. The Spyder2 was easily available at local Apple store. Bought it to give it a try. I have no problem using it. However, it seems to be drastically changing my output color. Screen looks good. It is taking a photo which previously printed fine and putting a light powder blue in place of white. Sometimes makes things have a brown hue. The brown will show up on the print preview but the blue does not.

If I try to switch to a non Spyder calibration file, the blue stays. I am inputting raw files to capone then passing a tiff to PSCS2. Just to compare I took the same photo but in iPhoto as a jpeg. It too prints out with the blue in place of white. Otherwise there is no connection between the jpeg and the tiff except they were created on the M8. They were not even input together.

Colorvision tech support will only call the customer back after leaving a message. So far they have not gotten around to calling.

Their software must have altered some deep down file. By the way I have an M8 and a MacBook.

I am very frustrated. My Apple genius and Creative had no clue. If anyone can be of assistance, I will be forever grateful. I am afraid my data is being corrupted.

Thank you all,
Larry

 

[mwooten]

Larry,
When you print via Photoshop, how do you do it? Do you use "print with preview"? If so, under the options try using the "Let Photoshop Determine Colors." Then disable the printers color management in the printers color dialogue.

Another obscure thing, that I've had once or twice, and can fix things in a Mac when color have gone bad, is to run the Colorsync utility. (Applications>Utilities>ColorSync Utility.app) Use the first aid to verify/repair your machine's ColorSync profiles.

I hope this helps.

Take care,
Michael

 

[rool]

Do you have the profile for your paper/printer combination?

 

[EotyLMB]

Michael,


I tried fixing the colorsync files. I did find inappropriate files and fixed them. There were a few locked that it could not fix. They seemed to not be ones I would use.

This effort did seem to get rid of my major blue for white problem. I printed two photos I had problems with. One seemed fixed entirely. The other still has a slight problem with blue for white but the major parts were fixed. THANK YOU!

I always print using preview. I always select no color management. I do not know where the "let PS contro.." is located. I do have CS2.

Based on this do you think the Spyder altered files incorrectly? How do you profile your monitor?

Thank you sooooo much. I may not be completely out of the woods but definite progress and I can now feel my files probably have not been corrupted.

Best regards,
Larry

 

[StuartR]

Are you sure you carried out the monitor calibration correctly? I suppose it is possible that you did not have the spyder on a totally flat, opaque surface when you calibrated, or perhaps it slipped on the screen. I am not totally sure, as I use an Xrite colorimeter with an Eizo monitor, so the software and hardware are a bit different. But usually the culprit is either a bad calibration or the color managed workflow is messed up (I.E. something is wrong in photoshop...either a profile mismatch, or both the printer and photoshop are trying to control the output.

Finally, when you printed, you selected the ICC profile for the paper, not the monitor, right? Because photoshop will automatically convert the monitor profile into paper profile, but you need to have it selected properly.

 

[EotyLMB]

Stuart,

Icc was for paper/printer combo.

I actually ran the calibration several times. I feel I follow the few instructions correctly and the unit was firm on the screen. I liked the results of the profile on the screen. It seemed very close to prints I had done previously. It is just that whites were replaced with light blues for the most part.

See the above post. Most of the blue problem seems to be fixed. I will print more tests.

Thank you,
Larry