I have been getting good results from profiling papers and my monitor with the Z3100ps using APS. I have two questions, one simple, one maybe not so simple.
1) Do I do any possible harm by leaving the colorimeter permanently plugged into a USB port?
2) I took a look at Optimizing and Editing my printer profiles. I got to a window showing a washed out image with a red X over it, over a Softproof Direction button, and a better version of the image with a green check over the Printer Direction button.
If I pressed either button, the images switched places. Also, the provile selected was not one of the ones I had developed. When I selected ones I had worked on, there was no change in the Softproof window (the red X remained, as well.)
Moving on to the next window, I got the larger image with the before and after sides. What am I to correct, and how? I am confused about the whole process. My softproofs seemed to me to be fairly accurate in predicting how the prints will look, and my monitor profiles are consistently in the upper end of Excellent as indicated by the APS software.
The documentation in the APS software doesn't seem to clear up my confusion. Also, wouldn't it make more sense when editing the profile to have two identical images side by side to more accurately gauge the changes, rather than one image with different halves, with no direct way to compare the changes on identical parts of the image?
I hope my questions are decipherable.