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I'm a color manager/scanner operator and absolutely need a color accurate monitor, as do all of our production staff as we all deal with color correction at one point or another. Our clientele has content that is very often extremely color critical and color correction on an inaccurate monitor can lead to proofs that fall short, and re-work (read $$$). Our company has been around a while, so we of course used to do color critical work without the aid of an accurate monitor, even though the manufacturer might have claimed it was. Rescanning/color correction andb re-proofing before the first proof showing was the norm then, and we'd likely be out of business if it was the norm now. In my opinion, with the low price of monitor calibration/profile creation devices, if you do any kind of color critical work without a calibrated monitor, you're either working to hard, or falling short of what you could be achieving. Not all clients are color critical though, but if you have the ability to give it to them, that's value added. Further, many clients out there now have their own color accurate monitors, and I can't imagine not being at least on the same level as them. We often take this further and install remote softproofing stations at our clients location to save on proofing/shipping costs
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