I have attached two monitors to one dual-head graphics card on Vista. Vista recognizes them both as "Generic Non-PnP Monitor - NVIDIA Geforce 7800 GTX". One of the displays is a 17'' Dell 1703 FPs LCD and the other is an old 21'' Nokia Multigraph 445X CRT. I have both calibrated and profiled these monitors using Spyder3. Then using Spyder3Pro software (Spyderproof) I have verified that the ICC profiles have been applied to their respective monitors. At least when I switch back and forth between "before calibration" and "after calibration" the looks of the screen changes on both devices (to better). A recalibration check tells that both screens are calibrated ok. They should now look the same, right? No, they don't. I even matched their brightness by trial and error (adjust, calibrate, repeat until good). The CRT still has a yellow cast and the LCD has a blue cast. Or maybe it's neutral, but relatively the CRT is warmer. A lot. Then I thought that maybe the screens frame affects visual perception. I looked at the screens through a tube to exclude environmental effects. The CRT is warmer. Calibration (both monitors offer RGB adjustments that adjust color, somehow): LCD RGB=43%,43%,50% to produce pure white measured by Spyder. CRT RGB=56%,51%,46% measured. But if I change these *after* calibration and profiling to 45%,40%,52% then the screens look more like. So... adjusting RGB on these screens makes white purer on both devices, but if I want identical colors I need to set similar %-values. Oops. Profiling is not supposed to work like this, so what's wrong? Any ideas would be much appreciated. Thanks.
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Two profiled monitors look different. What now?
2009-01-19 by str_online
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