>hi ..
>
>>Subject: Re: Danger: Pismo ColorSync Profile
>>
>>An update: I e-mailed the guy from xlr8yourmac about this. He says the
>>profiles were not meant for OS X. He has added warnings that people
>>shouldn't try to use them with OS X.
>
>personally, i think apple should build in a "better" way to calibrate the
>lcd screens in powerbooks.
>
>whilst the colorsync calibrate routine works reasonably for crt monitors,
>i always get very-less-than-satisfactory results when i try it on my
>pismo screen ... i've been using that exact same profile you mention for
>some time now, and whilst it gives much better results than anything
>apple supplies or i can create, i'm still a little bugged by the lack of
>richness and crispness it gives to many parts of the screen's gamut ...
>
>yes, yes, i know, i know ... i should get my screen calibrated properly
>if i'm that worried about it ...
It's rather hard to calibrate LCD screens in general and, to my
knowledge, no one's found a completely satisfactory manner to do this
on any platform. Everyone I know who depends on color calibration
(the hi-res color retouchers at the ad agency I used to work for,
others who are just picky about such things) refuse to use LCD
monitors for just this reason. These are the same people who walk by
my cube and tell me that my monitor is "too hot" and that I should
recalibrate... then 45 minutes later tell me it's "too cold" even
though I haven't done anything about it. :)
At any rate, to "calibrate your monitor" is meaningless. It's really
a matter of _what_ you calibrate it to. We had everyone calibrate
their displays to the 4 color linotronics press at the print shop we
sent our jobs to, but another company may calibrate to a Color
LaserWriter 12/600PS... which is dubious at best, since color laser
printers of any brand have rather inconsistent color from toner
cartridge to toner cartridge. Another group my calibrate their
displays to an input device, such as a scanner, rather than to a
printer. When we calibrate our displays to the lino press, color
looks a little off kilter if we print to a color laser printer or a
color inkjet.
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