Newly calibrated monitor too warm?

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I just bought a Dell 2412m monitor which I have attempted to calibrate using a Spyder 4 calibrator(works not mine!).

To my eye the calibrated view seems to be a little warm. I know that switching from un-calibrated to calibrated will always seem different, but in use a calibrated iMac all day in work ( calibrated with the same Spyder 4) so I'm used to correct colours.

I'm going to bring home some images I know are right on works computer tonight and see how they look, but would there be any reason for it being warm?

The screen is plugged into a laptop with on board graphics (Intel i5), could that be causing any issues?
 
Grasping at straws here, but what's the ambient light like in your home setup? For example, if you have fluorescent lights overhead, or 'normal' lights it will make a difference to how you perceive the images on the monitor. I'd guess that your work lighting is bound to be different from your home lighting, but whether that's behind the differences you see is another question!
 
When you first start the calibration process you pick the colour temp you want to use, what setting are you choosing and are you sticking to that or going with the spyder software recommendation after it has read to room light levels, if you room is of a low light level I find the spyder recommendation to be far too warm.

Your office might be brightly lit and at a daylight colour temp, if you don't set the same settings on you home monitor it will give a different result. Find out the office colour temp and set the home one to the same level.

The same is also true for the brightness setting as well.
 
Paul-H said:
When you first start the calibration process you pick the colour temp you want to use, what setting are you choosing and are you sticking to that or going with the spyder software recommendation after it has read to room light levels, if you room is of a low light level I find the spyder recommendation to be far too warm.

Your office might be brightly lit and at a daylight colour temp, if you don't set the same settings on you home monitor it will give a different result. Find out the office colour temp and set the home one to the same level.

The same is also true for the brightness setting as well.
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Ah now it was nearly dark when I tried it last night! Maybe that's the reason. I'll try it tonight with more light and see if that helps.
 
Glad I was able to help, calibration is not always as easy as the calibration device makers claim, and in the case of Datacolor their documentation is woefully lacking in content. I use theirs as well for both monitor and printer calibration, and the print calibrator so ducumentation is nonexistent.

Paul
 
Have you got a Before/After comparison at the end of the calibration process?
In my experience, based on several different monitors, when doing the A/B comparison the corrected images always look warmer/redder than the original, uncorrected version.
Out of the box, most monitors are too bright and tend towards blue.
 
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