I'm using an Eye One Display 2 to calibrate a couple of monitors which are:
1. Formac ProNitron 17/600 CRT connected to a new PowerBook 15" running OSX 10.3.6
I've tried easy mode and advanced mode with equally ghastly results. The device begins measuring starting with red through to green, blue, black, various stages of grey, white and then the whole screen turns a washed out khaki colour. At the end of the process a warning box appears to say that some deviation occurred and do you want to continue. Clearly not right I click on 'no' and start again with the same results.
Interestingly in advanced mode I enter white point to 6500 and when the device goes through the white point measurement it displays the following:
RGB Presets 6500
Current: varies from 22600 to 22900.
The final results are similar to the above.
2. The second set-up involves an Apple flat panel monitor (model M2454), Apple G4 computer again running OSX 10.3.6. In this case the Eye One goes through the calibration process with the final result a nasty khaki colour that looks like the screen has gone through some posterization effect in photoshop! It really does look that extreme. Very difficult to describe unless you see it but imagine putting your screen through photoshop and adjusting curves on about 3 or 4 points. I managed to grab screen shots of the final RGB adjustment curves with really extreme spikes up and down on all channels. If anyone can help I will be happy to email these to you.
Now, the first thought is that the device is faulty. Not so, as I'm using a second device that has been tested and found to be working fine. I initially thought that perhaps the Apple flat panel display is faulty but the device is behaving the same on my CRT. I have checked and checked again the sleep mode os set to never for the screen and disk.
Many thanks
Bob Johns
mail(at)expresspictures.co.uk
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