Digital BW, The Print

In a message dated 2/28/06 10:19:27 AM, siobhan@... writes:


> I am having problems calibrating my monitor ( La Cie electron 22 blue iv)
> with a Spyder optical 3.  Operating system 10.3.9 G4  To my eye the end
> result looks far too warm although this appears to be images opened in
> Photoshop.  I noticed that any images in Portfolio looked o.k., although
> still on the warm side.
> The procedure I followed in Optical was as follows:
> Guided by what I believe are the suggested settings for Piezotone.
> Target (Curve) set to  Gamma 1.8
> Whitepoint set to D50
> In  luminance I just left what was in the boxes.  Black 0.3 and white 80.0
> and followed on-screen instructions for the contrast and brightness.
> 

These settings (D50 or 5000k, and White Luminance of 80) are great, as long 
as you work in the DARK. Thats the required conditions for using a low lumiance 
monitor setting. The D50 whitepoint will look very yellow in typical room 
lighting. Thats to be expected. So either run your CRT brighter (which will burn 
it out faster) and still work in very dim conditions, but be able to calibrate 
to a somewhat higher whitepoint (say 5800k), or darken your room to near 
black, and work in D50 prepress conditions. Or get a bright LCD, and move into the 
light... but with the necessary adjustments to your other factors to balance 
this!

C. David Tobie
Product Technology Manager
ColorVision Business Unit
Datacolor Inc.
CDTobie@...
www.colorvision.com



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