Re: Display Brightness & Calibration
Re: Display Brightness & Calibration
- Subject: Re: Display Brightness & Calibration
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2002 15:05:37 EST
In a message dated 2/2/02 8:25:30 AM, email@hidden writes:
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It seems to me that using high brightness value for a monitor setting is
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good and appropriate for obtaining maximum
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dynamic range from the
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display. A good thing to do when your final
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output is a transparency.
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However the recommended brightness used in
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calibrating monitors in most
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of the software packages that I have used
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(ICC Display, Optical, Barco's
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Calibrator Talk) seems too bright if the
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final output I am trying to
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match is a print (specifically ink-jet print
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here). Shouldn't the
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displays be calibrated to the same brightness
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as the conditions under
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which the print will be examined (not
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necessarily the final display
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conditions)? After all, the point is to be
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able to match the monitor to
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the final output.
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If the printed image and the monitor don't appear visually similar, you have
a problem. But LCDs running at triple the luminance that CRTs were set at
work fine for print matching, provided your proofing lights illuminate the
print samples with an equivalently increased luminance.
C. David Tobie
Design Cooperative
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