LCD calibration help

[slartybartfast]

Hi All
Could anyone recommend reliable software for calibrating an apple 20? LCD screen. I work in the newspaper industry and would like our screens to match to final product as close as possible. It?s never going to be exact (45 gram newsprint) but it?s miles off at the moment and we seem to be putting an orange cast in our flesh tones. ops:

Thanks Neil

[clod]

I've been using both the i1Match 3.2 (with i1 spectrophotometer and i1 display) and Monaco Optix XR Pro packages. For the most part, I've been pretty pleased with both.

I recently had some issues where a client wasn't happy with the way some images softproofed on a 23" Apple that was calibrated with the Monaco system. Most of the images looked fine, but a few didn't match close enough (saturated blues and greens). I tried it with i1 Match with the same results. After fudging around a while I used the Optix Pro package and selected the table based profile option, creating a LUT based profile. The softproof for those images was significantly improved. So if I had to make a recommendation, it would be the Monaco Optic XR Pro package, of which I also like the trending and evaluation portion of the software.

That being said, I've heard good things about the i1Display2 colorimeter, and all the color smarties are raving about the ColorEyes Display, which uses the DTP-94, the same colorimeter in the Monaco package.

[clod]

the ColorEyes Display, which uses the DTP-94, the same colorimeter in the Monaco package.

That should read that the DTP-94 sells with the software as an option. The software will actually work with damn near any monitor calibrator out there.

[edgar]

I use Monaco Optix XR Pro with good results, be aware about your printer profiles for every colormanagent module of your software. You must take a look of your printer profiles and check if they're working well.

Good monitor profile + good printer profile + good color management config. = good match between display and press sheet.

A tip: with Monaco Optix you can measure the light temperature of your room or press lamps displays. This is very useful.

[slartybartfast]

Thanks guys
Think this is going to be a long haul introducing colour management but I have to start somewhere.
Clod?s i1Match 3.2 (with i1 spectrophotometer and i1 display), seems to get a good response from everyone I?ve talked to so I think I?ll just go for it.
Now all I have to do is get the printers (who run a ?4 million Goss press) to use a densitometer - you think I?m joking - I?m not

[edgar]

Yeah! I have a i1 spectrophotometer too. Works good.

[clod]

i1Match 3.2 (with i1 spectrophotometer and i1 display),

I have both the i1 spectro and the i1 display (colorimeter), you don't really need both though. If all your doing is monitor profiling, the Display device will work great...get the newer Display 2 though.

[digitaldog]

You don?t need both but keep in mind, very often a colorimeter will produce better results with a display than a Spectroradiometer (a Spectrophotometer uses a light source to measure something, the same device with the light source off, reading light radiating from a display is technically called a spectroradiometer).

Spectrophotometer break the colors into bands. Colorimeters are often much better and reading black levels because the data is not broken down to this degree and it?s often less expensive and easier to produce colorimeters with filters that are better designed for reading a display. The OPTIX xr is an example of a state of the art colorimeter designed with special filters (and internal cooling) that really shine on LCDs.

Bottom line is you can use a spectroradiometer on a display and it?s a multi-tasker but it?s not necessarily the best instrument for the job just because it?s more expensive.

Andrew Rodney
www.digitaldog.net