Calibration of two differant make monitors NEC & Samsung

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Hi, Maybe some one can advise here please?
I have an NEC monitor and use Spectraview II software to calibrate with an i1 Display Pro I also have a Samsung monitor hooked up to the same computer, the NEC Spectraview II is as far as I no is only good to calibrate an NEC monitor. The i1 Display Pro comes with calibration software from X-Rite.
Can I use both softwares to calibrate individual monitors or will the software fight against each other on the graphics card?
Many Thanks
Russ
 
Hi

What OS are you using? I know on osx you can have a different profile for each monitor. So I could profile each one differently if I wanted to.

Also another point to remember is that if you use the i1 for ambient light monitoring this may cause issues.
 
sep9001 said:
Hi

What OS are you using? I know on osx you can have a different profile for each monitor. So I could profile each one differently if I wanted to.

Also another point to remember is that if you use the i1 for ambient light monitoring this may cause issues.
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Hi, Win 7 64 bit 16GB ram 2 X SSD's Radeon R7 250 1024mb GDDR5.
No ambient light monitoring just the displays.
Thanks for the reply.
Russ
 
Sorry not tried on win 7. Hopefully Neil or one of the other it experts will pop in and help.
 
Ozei said:
NEC's faq page confirms that - you can't calibrate a non-NEC monitor with SpectraviewII, you can only profile it. http://www.necdisplay.com/spectra-view-II/FAQ

List of supported monitors is here http://www.necdisplay.com/support-and-services/spectra-view-II/Compatibility#models
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Hi, Thanks for the reply that leads to the second part of my OP if I use another software to calibrate, in my case the software that came with the i1 Display Pro will it conflict with the Spectraview software?
I could use I no the i1 Pro software to calibrate both monitors but Spectraview II is made as you point out just for NEC monitors so I would assume it does the best job?
Thanks again
Russ
 
Hmm, tricky one. I'd have thought it's better to be certain that one monitor is calibrated correctly rather than have two monitors that you're uncertain about. So if the NEC is your main image monitor I'd definitely use the Spectraview software for it (rather than calibrate it with X-Rite software).

I use a ColorMunki Photo (which comes with X-Rite software) but my Eizo monitor is supposed to be calibrated with Eizo's own software (called ColorNavigator). If both software progs are installed the X-Rite one will try and take over, so I only install ColorNavigator - this isn't a problem because I don't have a dual monitor setup.

You do have dual monitors so all you can do is try the various options. NEC say Spectraview won't calibrate the Samsung (it's not on the list) so I'd try X-Rite on the Samsung and see what happens, i.e.

1. Calibrate the NEC using Spectraview software (and write down all the settings on the results screen)
2. Make a note of what is showing for the NEC in Control Panel>Color Management
3. Calibrate the Samsung using X-Rite software - try and keep to the same settings used for the NEC (as written down in step 1).
4. What is showing now for the NEC in Control Panel>Color Management - is it still the same as it was at step 2?
 
Yeah.. it's a great screen. I only ask in case it could be hardware profiled, as that makes things easier. The PA231W cannot however.

You should be able to calibrate both with the i1 Display Pro and the i1 software easily enough.

Some video cards will refuse to play ball though... you calibrate one screen... looks great... calibrate the other, and that looks great, but then the first one doesn't. Pain in the arse. If that happens, it's not a problem with the i1 software, but your GPU most likely.


In order to calibrate two screens with the i1 Display Pro your GPU and OS requires:

- Support for individual Video LUTs (lookup tables) for both monitors (support of two graphic chips)
- Support for handling individual ICC profiles for both monitors
- Dual monitors will need to be physically connected to individual ports on a single graphics card setup...no splitters or switches!

Most dual headed GPUs will support this. Does your video card have twin DV-I, or DV-I plus Display port?
 
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