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Hi,

Have any of you been able to hardware calibrate your monitors yet?

I am using a Spyder, but it doesn't have any support yet. Wondering if
anyone has had any luck using anything else

Thanks

Henrik

It all depends on the video card.

> Have any of you been able to hardware calibrate your monitors yet?
Can you explain what you mean by hardware calibrate.
The only hardware calibration I know of, is open the monitor
and adjust the screen width and height if can't be adjusted
from within windows. Most new monitors don't have the adjustment
any more, it is all electronics, than using potentiometers.


"Henrik" <> wrote in message
news:27217836-8C7B-48C6-AA49-...
> Hi,
>
> Have any of you been able to hardware calibrate your monitors yet?
>
> I am using a Spyder, but it doesn't have any support yet. Wondering if
> anyone has had any luck using anything else
>
> Thanks
>
> Henrik

Ted wrote:
> It all depends on the video card.
>
>
>>Have any of you been able to hardware calibrate your monitors yet?
>
> Can you explain what you mean by hardware calibrate.
> The only hardware calibration I know of, is open the monitor
> and adjust the screen width and height if can't be adjusted
> from within windows. Most new monitors don't have the adjustment
> any more, it is all electronics, than using potentiometers.

He probably means colour calibration. It is very important for
people in some industries to know that the colours they see on
their screen accurately and precisely portray what their printers
will actually output.

>
>
> "Henrik" <> wrote in message
> news:27217836-8C7B-48C6-AA49-...
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>Have any of you been able to hardware calibrate your monitors yet?
>>
>>I am using a Spyder, but it doesn't have any support yet. Wondering if
>>anyone has had any luck using anything else
>>
>>Thanks
>>
>>Henrik
>
>
>

Hi Ted,

thanks for taking your time to reply, but the question is little beyond your
answer.
have a look at this http://www.computer-darkroom.com/home.htm

this guy has a few articules on the topic

To cut to the chase, I need my monitors calibrated, so when I edit my
digital images, I can see on the screen, what they will look like when I have
them printed, either on my own printers or sending them to a lab (using their
profile ICC)

thanks again Ted, I much appreciate you help

Regards

Henrik

Honestly, this is probably over my head as well, but the newer nVidia
drivers do have a calibration wizard (very neat too). In order to use it
with consisten results, though, I suspect you want your own profiles as a
reference (*.icm; *.icc). How you can get those I do not know, but if you
have a monitor of some quality I would think the manufacturer will be able
to supply it. And if you are working on several displays wouldn't you want
profiles specifically tuned to each one???

Personally, I have no idea of what kind of profile to use, or how to use it
but that wizard did wonders for my
MAG 996PF2 a beautyful display out of the box became - well, wondrous. The
only reference I can rely on is if I take a picture of a known environment,
but I cannot know if the colors reflect the state of the camera, display or
printer. Or, indeed, my eyes?

So, if you have such profiles, that wizard may answer your needs. If not, I
have just wasted every body's time.

Regards, Tony. . .


"Ted" <> wrote in message
news:...
> It all depends on the video card.
>
>> Have any of you been able to hardware calibrate your monitors yet?
> Can you explain what you mean by hardware calibrate.
> The only hardware calibration I know of, is open the monitor
> and adjust the screen width and height if can't be adjusted
> from within windows. Most new monitors don't have the adjustment
> any more, it is all electronics, than using potentiometers.
>
>
> "Henrik" <> wrote in message
> news:27217836-8C7B-48C6-AA49-...
>> Hi,
>>
>> Have any of you been able to hardware calibrate your monitors yet?
>>
>> I am using a Spyder, but it doesn't have any support yet. Wondering if
>> anyone has had any luck using anything else
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Henrik
>
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