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Title: Is your display device calibrated?
Post by: Jari on 2007-03-15 17:52:44

Just a small, informal poll. Spurred by having to deal with prepress people recently and just plain curiosity.

• Do you use PC or Mac?
• Is your display calibrated with an actual calibration device?
• Or calibrated by hand, using gamma scales and such?
• If it is, to what gamma is it calibrated to?
• If it's not calibrated, have you at least checked the black point?
• What color temperature your monitor is set to?

This is not very scientific, and I know rough percentages beforehand, but I'm curious. :)

Title: Re: Is your display device calibrated?
Post by: James Pond on 2007-03-15 20:02:33

Self calibrated

Cant tell you much else, my monitor has an auto calibration button so I use that >_>

Title: Re: Is your display device calibrated?
Post by: ChaosControl on 2007-03-16 08:30:38

I have no idea, these things do it themselves...

Title: Re: Is your display device calibrated?
Post by: Otokoshi on 2007-03-16 16:19:31

I just use DisplayMate to get good contrast, gamma,  and color levels.

Title: Re: Is your display device calibrated?
Post by: Skillster/RedSarg99 on 2007-03-19 06:47:06

Well my monitor is DVI, so there is only 3 possible settings - Brightness, Contrast and Colour Temperature.
Mines isn't caliberated, but Dell put in 3 profiles - Desktop, Gaming and Multimedia which all effect the above settings in different ways...

Title: Re: Is your display device calibrated?
Post by: nope on 2007-03-21 17:49:39

I use a mac, not sure if it's already been calibrated but you can do it manually in the display preferences.

Title: Re: Is your display device calibrated?
Post by: Chrisu on 2007-03-21 18:20:38

I've got a monitor with a DVI and a VGA interface, but i only have a VGA-cable. So i use a DVI->VGA-Adapter plugged into my graphics card. Would it be worth buying a DVI-cable, are there performance or image-quality differences?

Title: Re: Is your display device calibrated?
Post by: Skillster/RedSarg99 on 2007-03-22 14:02:20

Yes, if you have an eye for detail.

Title: Re: Is your display device calibrated?
Post by: Chrisu on 2007-03-25 20:55:49

Quote from: The Skillster on 2007-03-22 14:02:20

Yes, if you have an eye for detail.

Could you please explain to me, what differences there are?  :-) Because i think ive never seen a dvi-monitor...