Calibration System with Dual Screen on OS X Mavericks

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Anyone running OS X Mavericks with a Dual Screen setup, if you do please can you let me know which Calibration System you use for the Screen Calibration.

I have the spyder3pro which does not seem to work on both monitors.

Thank you

Kev
 
Hi Neil,

It is fine on my windows 7 and was also okay on Mountain Lion, however it does not see correct on Mavericks.

One monitor is brigher than the other even though the settings on both are the same.

Thanks

Kev
 
yes was just about to say it only seems to mention 10.8

might be worth dropping their support an email, they are pretty quick at responding (only contacted them once)
 
Thank you, will do that now.
 
I've been using Spyder3Pro with a dual monitor setup (MacBook Pro internal screen + an Eizo display) on Mavericks with no problem since the end of October.

Currently I have v4.0.7 installed.
 
Thanks. I have logged a call with data colour and will see what they come back with.
 
Sorry should have also mentioned I am using two dell 2209 wa.
 
They have come back with:

Spyder3 is officially not supported under Mavericks...

Apart from a upgrade to spyder4 are there any cheaper options?

Thanks
 
Data Colour have offer me a 20% discount code which if my calculations are correct it would cost about £135 delivered. It is 209 euros without the discount. The cheapest x rite i1 is at WEX for about £164 delivered. So which one should I go for....

http://spyder.datacolor.com/orders/

Thank you, please help...
 
I use the X-Rite i1 over two screens . However as far as the software is concerned i use ColorEyes Display Pro, not the X-Rite software. Only because I've used this for years. This calibrates the iMac screen and my ageing gateway fine. I use the X-Rite software on my rMBP and this gives a good visual match to the iMac

Not used the Spyder, but by all accounts it's a good bit of hardware

I've used CEDP from OS 10.6 and the X-Rite software from 10.7, to mavericks with no problems, just a small update to both.
 
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John,

Thank you. I do not want to buy one only to find out it does not work. Might just try my Spyder3pro again and try and calibrate one monitor, else might have to find someone local to me who can lend me one to try before i buy.
 
Musicman seems to have used his Spyder 3 under Maverick to calibrate two monitors. You might want to make sure that when you set up the second monitor it's not set to mirror displays ( I think this is the default) When I cal both monitors I get the option as to which monitor to calibrate.
 
Thank you. I have un ticked the box and going to re calibrate them again.
 
Thanks. The models are the same will check the batch numbers. They were bought at different times, at least 2 years apart.
 
Update:

Bought the xrite i1 display pro and that seems to work fine. It looks like the issue may be monitor related.

With the xrite i1 display I have a few questions which I need help with:

1. How do you profile your screen using the standard or advance option?

2.If using advance what options do you set?

I have 2 dell 2209wa connected and am OSX 10.9.4.

Thank you for your help.
 
sep9001 said:
They have come back with:

Spyder3 is officially not supported under Mavericks...

Apart from a upgrade to spyder4 are there any cheaper options?

Thanks
Click to expand...

I use a spyder 3 pro on Mavericks and three screens. I can calibrate each individually.
It may not be supported, but seems to work fine here.
 
Thanks, I agree it works fine but I have one monitor which is less brighter than the other.

With the spyder both were set to 50% brightness as part of the calibration, however on the i1 one is at 89 and the other is 69.

They now both look very identical but I just want to make sure I have calibrated them correctly.

There was a thread from David (pookeyhead) about using the advance option but I cannot find it.
 
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