Re: Optical & PrintFix Issues
Re: Optical & PrintFix Issues
- Subject: Re: Optical & PrintFix Issues
- From: Roger Breton <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 09:19:55 -0400
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The white setting is done using the Brightness adjustment
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and can be set as high as you wish. It's been mentioned
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here before, brighter is better. Published recommendations
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suggest 120 cd/m2 (or higher) though some argue that with
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CRTs higher values may shorten monitor life-span when 100
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cd/m2 might have been just fine for 'real world' needs. I
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don't think setting the contrast to the highest level with
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an LCD will do any harm.
Before I got my Eizo CG21, I was anxious about what white luminance
(Contrast) settings to drive an LCD at in order to maintain a reasonly
calibrated loop for soft proofing. I believed then that I would have had to
drive an LCD at 150 or more Cd/m2, just because LCD technology allows
operation at that level, and because of the common belief that "more
[luminance] is usually better". But, after some soul searching, I realized
that regardless of the illuminating technology, phosphors or backlit or
OLEDs or whathever, the standard target for calibrating a self-luminous
display for critical color work, under ISO-12646:2000, does not need to
change and should stay at the nominal 85 Cd/m2. That is if the viewing
conditions, below 32 Lux illuminance falling on the face od the monitor,
prescribed by the standard, are adhered to.
Roger Breton | Laval, Canada | email@hidden
http://pages.infinit.net/graxx
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