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A likely generic solution to the yechh throwup colors of 5000K monitor calibration. Having experienced this myself and refusing to believe something was not amis I discovered the following. Monitor calibration utilities begin their operations from some specific "state" of monitor control settings, i.e. hardware button brightness/contrast/color temp control, LUT card parameters. If these controls and parameters control your monitor, e.g. having been previously set to approximate 6500 during a previous calibration, and then one runs the monitor calibrator, the calibrator assumes that the previous settings constituted the native, uncalibrated state of the display/LUT. The new calibration therefore further reduces white point, etc. and you get the mess you see. My monitor is currently calibrated successfully to 5000K and it looks fine: not as glaringly bright or contrasty as 6500 or 9500, but also not fubar dark yellow/red. It matches, as advertised, my cheap and serviceable 5000K flourescent print-viewing bulb. I've been doing my monitor calibrations using ColorShop, but the above advice should apply to any calibrator. Setting the display/LUT to its uncalibrated, native state can be tricky with some calibrators. You may need to experiment with this because documentation is hard to find. On MacOS I think you can usually achieve this by choosing the GenericRGB in the Monitors & Sound Control Panel. prior to beginning calibration. Mike Rich - * Free Ground Shipping to 10/31 for Leben members! (Select Leben for * * shipping). Now available The Hahnemuhle Collection of Fine Art Papers * * Digital Art Supplies at http://www.digitalartsupplies.com *