Monitor Calibration

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What do you guys use to calibrate monitor for printing and are you happy with the results?

I need to improve my colour matching and general brightness and am wasting a lot of ink in the process!
 
I just use the gamma curve control that's part of the Nvidia driver and match by eye to the chart here:

http://www.deviantart.com/view/32590523/

click on the image to view full size.

This chart is set up for sRGB calibration of the gamma, the outer area should have the same brightness as the inner area in each square/colour.

Before doing that tho, set up the brightness/contrast as directed at the top of this page:

http://epaperpress.com/monitorcal/index.html

I set the printer (Epson R220) to use ICM in the settings and the prints match perfectly.
 
Interesting. My brightness /contrast was spot on but I could see squares in the middle of your bottom colour boxes. Changed the monitor gamma and now they are gone too.

Screen seems a bit bright though. Guess I'll get used to it.

Thanks for the info pxl8
 
Tis a black art this monitor calibration thing, I've given up, used photobox's screen calibtration and get my prints from them now.
 
I use Adobe gamma and an icc profile for the paper I use most often, it seems to work well for me.
 
Adobe gamma here too. I use an lcd that's not that hot and it seems to defeat all these stripey box type gamma adjusters. Equally, I could see all the middle boxes on pxl8's test chart.

Weird.
 
The gamma charts can cause problems with lcd's because of the way the rgb layout works - sometimes you need to move the chart up/down a pixel to get it correctly aligned. I check it's in the right place by viewing a second version at 200% and standing back/squinting. If the 100% version shows the same differences then I know it's properly aligned.
 
Any chance you could put that colour picture in this thread? That site is defeating my usual drag to desktop method of grabbing a picture....then I can try the 200% thing.

My monitor still seems too bright.
 
Ere it is..

sRGB_chart.png
 
Out of interest for those that have a calibrated monitor......

When you edit and view an image in CS2 PSP etc which are colour managed, then view the same image on the web IE Firefox etc, do you see much difference in the colours?
 
I guess that depends on how you've calibrated - as I set mine up through the gfx driver it's system wide so I don't need to use colour management in PS, etc. and images look the same in any app.

H/w calibration solutions such as the Huey, I believe, work the same way so the results are also system wide.
 
I find images in web browsers slightly saturated than in CS2 on my monitor.
 
What colour space are you using for the shots?
 
In CS2 have you got View > Proof Colours ticked?

If so, what colour profile have you selected? Mine is set to Custom with sRGB as the Device and Preserve RGB checked.

I've also assigned sRGB as the profile for the monitor in Control Panel.

So it works something like this - my display is sRGB calibrated, CS2 is told that's the colour space I'm working in, and when I print the sRGB profile is mapped to the printer profile.

It's tricky business but if you can get your display sRGB calibrated at a system level you can turn off colour matching in everything else and just use the right profile for the printer.
 
Sounds about how I got mine set in CS2.

Just been looking at some of the pictures that have a slight colour shift on the web after you asked what colour space I was shooting in and noticed they were shot as High-Sat.

The one's shot normal seem fine.
 
Hi,

sorry to be resurrecting this thread, but i need help regarding screen calibration, couple of days ago i recieved a 2407wfp to go alongside my 2405fpw... Im running 1 display under OSX and the other under WinXP, and im seeing a huge differance between the colours on both monitors.

I impulse bought a Spyder 2 Colour calibration unit a few months ago from Ebuyer, but like most things i have ordered from ebuyer, after a couple of weeks of waiting they refunded me and told me they were out of stock...

Now ive seen the huge differance between the two screens I can appreciate the importance of getting the colours displayed correctly. What do you guys recommend, im hoping to get a hardware solution (that takes all user inaccurances out the the equation)... ideally the unit has to work under WinXP and OSX and the license has to allow my to use it on multiple displays.

Any suggestions guys and gals?? thanks Darryn.
 
I would calibrate both to these settings

6500K
2.2 gamma
120 luminance (100 for crt)

as these are a nice recomended settings and your pc will manage the gamma ok.

A older mac standard for photography is

5000K
1.8 gamma
120 luminance (100 for crt)

those are the settings I use on my mac, and when I have anything printed at home or from photobox the prints are identical, (home printer is profiled, as is my camera)

I use gretag macbeth calibration hardware.
Take a look at the eye one display 2.
 
Thanks Mr mho01, those settings have helped a lot and have made my two display very similar, I will definately look into the Pantone Eye One Display2 as well.
 
There are some charts on this page that are good for checking you're set up well on sRGB:

http://www.normankoren.com/makingfineprints1A.html

My main pc matches spot on and I can't see any banding or wavy lines in the chart. Prints from my Epson are spot on and I've just ordered some proofs from Colab to see how they match up....
 
The hardware calibration (say with an eye one or similar) will bring the colour values together on the monitors as the hardware devices sample the grey scale and the colour scales etc of the monitor outputs and builds a profile to your desired settings.

so if you pic

6500K
2.2 Gamma
120 luminance

as you use the hardware the monitors should be identical.

They will look slightly diffrent due to their size and brightness (luminance) you could always tweek the luminance if need be and lower it on the brighter screen, as the luminance value is not he most critical and should not alter the colour balance if adjusted slightly.

hope this helps

Mark
 
colour management..........ewwwwww i feel sick!

my monitor looks good, photoshops settings match those found in most guides....printer paper profiles from epson...genuine epson inks :eek: and prints that come no where near :'(


:bang: :bang: :bang: :bang:
 
I use the Spyder 2 Pro to calibrate this (19" Iiyama LCD) monitor and have used the services of the Dot Foundry to create a custom profile for my Epson printer, using Epson inks and paper. Generally very pleased with the results :)
 
taken me ages to make my monitor look ok after trying to calibrate it :(

I have 19" TFT infront of me and a 17" CRT to my right --> The CRT has some odd settings, like max contrast and quite a lot of brightness, but it shows colours as they print from my Epson R300 perfectly. The LCD on the other hand is washed out :( Still cant get it too look right......Wish I hadnt started and just trusted my judgement like before :(
 
I thought my tft was sorted but reading through this I'm left wondering. The only setting available to me on the monitor is brightness. No contrast or temp or gamma.

Have left the ATI drivers on default settings and used a Spyder 2 to calibrate. Is this enough?

Maybe I should buy a Mac :D
 
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