Re: calibrating monitors to what?
Re: calibrating monitors to what?
- Subject: Re: calibrating monitors to what?
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 15:16:09 EDT
In a message dated 10/26/01 2:43:24 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
email@hidden writes:
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A couple of questions and replies came up on another list that I would
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like to run by this group. As a little background, the other group is
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populated by photographers who work primarily with RGB workflows. Most
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use in-house printers (Inkjets and Pictrographies) but also use
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professional labs for a good share of their work. The concern was how
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best to set up their monitors to predict how the prints would look when
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they returned from the lab. I will paraphrase for brevity.
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Question 1. My lab sent me a calibration file and print and told me to
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use the gamma settings on my monitor to make the calibration file look
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like the print that they supplied. I find this is difficult to do.
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A.) Is it better to do this or to use the Colorvision spyder and
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software (or any other product) to calibrate my monitor?
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B.) If the latter (spyder and software), how does the monitor calibrate
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to the color lab printer so your prints from the lab match what you see
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on your monitor?
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Reply 1: If your monitor and your lab's monitor are calibrated and
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profiled to the same standard, they should display images very much
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alike. In which case, if your lab has their printer profiled to match
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their monitor, it should also match yours. ... we should all use
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calibrated monitors and we should expect our labs to do the same.
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I suspect that to reply to this would be ro respond to my own response... so
I'll pass on this one <G>
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Reply and Question 2: (from a professional lab) In reading through these
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posts, everyone says they want a calibrated monitor. My question back to
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them is what is the monitor calibrated to? Is the monitor calibrated to
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look good in your viewing environment? Is it calibrated to look good to
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what specific output device? Is it calibrated to an industry standard
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that has yet to be embraced by everyone?
Not yet embraces by this lab, apparently! Yes, there is a universal standard
involved... and it can be applied to their Frontier as well... Frontiers
profile beautifully! Then you apply the profile to the image, look at it in
Photoshop ON YOUR CALIBRATED MONITOR, and you are done. No hack jobs at the
Lab to try to correct it as they see fit.
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Additional comments from the lab:
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...The adjustments that we do make [to your files] are done via the
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Frontier environment, they also have their limits.
Yes, but you can circumvent those limits by profiling the Frontier and
applying that profile in advance to files to be printed on it. Been there,
done that, beat the heck out of anything the Lab could produce on their own.
Please feel free to post this back to where it came from...
C. David Tobie