Monitor Temperature in Odd Workflow Question
Monitor Temperature in Odd Workflow Question
- Subject: Monitor Temperature in Odd Workflow Question
- From: "Harper, Jacque" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2002 15:14:12 -0600
Seeing that it's the middle of the afternoon on a Friday, it's time for me
to pose my current big question to the group, giving a) you the weekend to
think about a response b) me the chance to go home before the next digest
comes out so I can evade the flames and other responses, and c) everyone a
chance to have a laugh at my expense when you hear the challenge I am trying
to overcome!!
----Summary of Question:
What monitor temperature (i.e. 5000, 6500, 9300) should I standardize on?
----Background Details and Resources:
I am part of a small workgroup (6 users). We prepare materials for print by
a Printer, stuff for internal distribution printed on a laser printer,
PowerPoint presentations for onscreen and with handouts, and we do some web
design--including browser 'front ends' for CDs--and a small amount of video.
Each of us has at our desks both an aging PC running NT4 and a not-so-aging
G4 running OS9. However, only one of us has two monitors. The rest of us
have one monitor each (typically NEC MultiSyncs) which we share between the
computers by flipping the BMC/D-SUB switch.
The laser printer is a new HP 8550 (warnings about it's consistency from an
erstwhile member of this list came too late to stop us...but I think it will
serve us reasonably well). Our Printer is well-established and has at least
one staffer who is training in ColorSync issues and will help us, perhaps by
coming over and profiling our printer, maybe our monitors.
Software we use: Photoshop 5.5, Freehand 8 and 9, Powerpoint (sorry!), Quark
4.1, Microsoft Office products, Strata 3D, iMovie.
We do not have any kind of D50 controlled lighting/viewing area. Some users
are close to some windows at head height, others are farther away, getting
most of our light from flourescents. One guy has pulled the plug on those
lights, too, so he's sitting in the dark...
----Longer Statement of Question:
Now that you've stopped laughing at us chained to _both_ computers...! The
pressure is on me to demonstrate to the rest of the group that we can get
good color results (dare I say soft proofing?!) across all our computers,
and hopefully the printer as well (n.b.: when we are Printing a job, our
Printer supplies a true proof before the press run, so I'm not trying to
rely on the laser printer to make a proof...but it'd be nice). I'm really
struggling with setting the right white point/color temperature on the
monitor, and probably because I have to go back and forth between the PC 2.2
gamma idea and the Mac 1.8 "gamma."
I've experimented with making different monitor profiles, and feel pretty
comfortable about the process of monitor profiling and setting the RGB and
CMYK settings in Photoshop. But before I try to convince designers with
considerably more experience than me (in Design, anyway--I'm sort of the
resident computer geek) that the yellowish white of a 5000 setting is
_right_, it would really help me to have some opinions from those with more
experience than I on the setting of our monitors. (Even if it's many
differing opinions! I'm confident that I will learn something from all of
them.)
----Signoff:
Okay, that's a long post. Thanks for reading it, and when you finish
laughing (enjoy your weekend), I hope you'll take a moment to share your
thoughts, and perhaps the reasoning behind them.
Sincerely,
Jacque Harper
Creative Services, UOP LLC
email@hidden
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