Calibration of Macbook Screen

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Hi all,

I was wondering is it necessary/useful to calibrate a macbook screen prior to printing? I generally use DSCL and for the most part the results are acceptable. My work monitors are quite a bit off in terms of colour reproduction.

Any thoughts or suggestions would be great! thanks
 
I noticed quite a difference when calibrating my Samsung monitor, but minimal difference after calibrating my MBP Retina Screen. Been very happy printing with dscl without calibration.
 
interestingly I've had a very similar experience, my work monitors are also samsung (3x27") and I too noticed a big difference. But equally I don't want to sound like a Apple fanboy, if it's clearly beneficial for the mbp retina (the first 2012 version) I'll try give it another go
 
Also I'm very happy with DSCL. I know they provide different paper calibrations, and I did pull these into Lightroom but I wasn't clear how these should be part of my workflow.
 
I guess if you hold up a dscl print up next to your monitor with the printed file displayed on it and there's not much difference then you probably won't gain much by calibrating.
 
I have a rMBP ( one of the first ones) and I noticed that apart from brightness it looked very close out of the box to when it was calibrated.
 
I wouldn't bother, I tried once and the results were far worse than leaving on default settings.
 
Bond6 said:
I wouldn't bother, I tried once and the results were far worse than leaving on default settings.
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thanks for info! i tried it too ages ago when i first got my macbook, and i wasnt conovinced by the results at all at the time. Just curious now whether I had done something incorrectly... seems not ..
 
I calibrated my rMBP screen when I got it with a ColourMunki. It made a bit of a difference, mainly in just correcting the brightness (which was set way too high)
 
trican said:
Thats interesting Neil - what can possibly cause a "slip"?
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Hardware aging. Backlights and LCD can fade and/or not produce the same colours as they once did from the factory.

To quote Xrite:

"Displays all vary just in their "out-of-box" settings. And, over time, the color performance of monitors change – phosphors and LCD filters begin to fade, so your display starts to drift into unknown colors."

Which is why you should calibrate your display frequently. Personally I go for every 2 months.

Factory calibrations need to be taken with a pinch of salt too. As they cannot determine exactly what gpu is going to be used with every panel.
 
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neil_g said:
Hardware aging. Backlights and LCD can fade and/or not produce the same colours as they once did from the factory.

To quote Xrite:

"Displays all vary just in their "out-of-box" settings. And, over time, the color performance of monitors change – phosphors and LCD filters begin to fade, so your display starts to drift into unknown colors."

Which is why you should calibrate your display frequently. Personally I go for every 2 months.

Factory calibrations need to be taken with a pinch of salt too. As they cannot determine exactly what gpu is going to be used with every panel.
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very interesting - thanks
 
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