Why D65 on monitors and D50 on lightbox?
Why D65 on monitors and D50 on lightbox?
- Subject: Why D65 on monitors and D50 on lightbox?
- From: Nick Wheeler <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2001 08:19:10 -0500
Jonathan,
Actually 5500K Gamma 2.1 on the monitor works better for me here with Epson
Premium Luster Paper and a 1 year old Mitsubishi 2040U and a GTI lightbox of
indeterminate age. These settings are most likely different for every
observer, monitor and lightbox.
I think it is extremely important that your monitor whitepoint closely mimic
your paper whitepoint for accurate soft proofing, regardless of all the view
setup proof setup absolute colorimetric cmm profile to print cmyk black
generation gray component reduction replace this get down funky chicken
mumbo jumbo you may have heard or read.
I have only obtained "good" results by matching my monitor whitepoint as
closely as possible to my paper whitepoint (with a mixture of a Gretag
Sprectralino, ProfileMaker Pro and a 54 year old male pattern colorblinded
eyeball).
Acceptable or close is not "good". I have never seen perfect.
Once my monitor is re-calibrated to that whitepoint in both hardware and
video lookup table, I then create and use the profile of the monitor at that
whitepoint as well. This works better than anything else I have tried.
Best wishes,
Nick Wheeler