Hi all,
I thought I might should set off separate thread from the other one I had that was more dedicated to printing....
I wanted to get ya'll experiences and advice on calibrating your monitors so what you 'develop' onscreen matches what comes out of the printer.
I have a macbook pro, hooked to external keyboards, wacom and a Dell U2711.
This was a pretty hot monitor in its day, cam pre-calibrated and from what I researched in the day, was pretty good.
I'm about to get started trying to print on a new printer I recently got.
I bought the i1Display Pro calibration unit from Xrite. I did the calibration a few times yesterday...and according to it and the after tests, it "should" be calibrated....U65, etc....I did the RBG to neutral grey manually during the tests....
But the monitor now looks much dimmer and bluer than I'd expect.
I'm sure I had been using it a bit warmer, but WOW...this really looks different.
According to the post tests etc..it checks out. The only thing I could not get to....is I could not get up to the recommended 120 brightness...at 100% on my monitor it only gets up to about 99.
I researched and found that the Dell U2711 was backlit with CCFL, so I put in wide gamut CCFL as the lighting...etc.
Anyway, has anyone else run into what seems to be way off what you think a calibrated monitor should look like after tuning it?
Thoughts?
Suggestons?
Thanks in advance,
cayenne
I thought I might should set off separate thread from the other one I had that was more dedicated to printing....
I wanted to get ya'll experiences and advice on calibrating your monitors so what you 'develop' onscreen matches what comes out of the printer.
I have a macbook pro, hooked to external keyboards, wacom and a Dell U2711.
This was a pretty hot monitor in its day, cam pre-calibrated and from what I researched in the day, was pretty good.
I'm about to get started trying to print on a new printer I recently got.
I bought the i1Display Pro calibration unit from Xrite. I did the calibration a few times yesterday...and according to it and the after tests, it "should" be calibrated....U65, etc....I did the RBG to neutral grey manually during the tests....
But the monitor now looks much dimmer and bluer than I'd expect.
I'm sure I had been using it a bit warmer, but WOW...this really looks different.
According to the post tests etc..it checks out. The only thing I could not get to....is I could not get up to the recommended 120 brightness...at 100% on my monitor it only gets up to about 99.
I researched and found that the Dell U2711 was backlit with CCFL, so I put in wide gamut CCFL as the lighting...etc.
Anyway, has anyone else run into what seems to be way off what you think a calibrated monitor should look like after tuning it?
Thoughts?
Suggestons?
Thanks in advance,
cayenne