RE: Choosing a new Monitor (was LCD Monitors)

["Laurie Solomon" <laurie@advancenet.net>]

>If you calibrate the monitor, and then leave it alone, then you know
>that you're seeing the same thing you'd see on any properly calibrated
>monitor.

Ideally, this may be true; but as the monitor ages and/or heats up, it tends
to drift and needs to be recalibrated.  Since calibration of the monitor
takes place prior to any color management and serves as a basis for
accurrate color management, it needs to be redone on each monitor on a
regualr timely basis.  It is during the calibration that one may be called
upon to use the actual physical monitor controls to set the contrast and
brightness levels or to even make some color correction adjustments to
account for differences in types of color temperatures or phosphors, etc.
between the different monitors that might be used in your system or in yor
system versus another system.  This serves to insure that the monitors used
to evaluate the soft proofs or the images to be printed are equivalent and
therefore the color spaces defined by the printer profiles as seen on the
monitors will be equivalent.

Aside from these supplemental comments, I concur with what you have said
Paul.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-epson-inkjet@leben.com
[mailto:owner-epson-inkjet@leben.com]On Behalf Of Paul D. DeRocco
Sent: Friday, May 24, 2002 3:41 PM
To: epson-inkjet@leben.com
Subject: RE: Choosing a new Monitor (was LCD Monitors)


Yes. If you calibrate the monitor, and then leave it alone, then you know
that you're seeing the same thing you'd see on any properly calibrated
monitor. If you adjust the monitor to match the prints, then you're looking
at the "wrong" colors, and any files you produce will not print correctly if
you take them to a print shop that has properly calibrated equipment.

If you want to tweak any controls to get better matching, tweak the color
controls in the printer driver. Although this is a necessarily iterative
process, once you've found a good setting, you'll know that you've matched
the printer to the monitor, and not the other way around.

--

Ciao,               Paul D. DeRocco
Paul                mailto:pderocco@ix.netcom.com

> From: Konrad Poth
>
> Color me naive.
>
> With the color controls present I was hoping to first run Adobe
> Gamma, then
> using one of my prints from my 1270 as a master, try to set the color
> controls of the monitor to match the print as closely as possible
> - without
> the extra expense of a Spyder.
>
> Am I way off base here?

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