RE: Eizo CG 21 and White Point...
RE: Eizo CG 21 and White Point...
- Subject: RE: Eizo CG 21 and White Point...
- From: "Hirsch, Steve" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 11:30:31 -0400
- Thread-topic: Eizo CG 21 and White Point...
Title: RE: Eizo CG 21 and White Point...
Hi Carlo,
I have read the other responses to this thread and thought to throw in my 2 cents. The discussion over which calibration white point to use must consider the ambient lighting of your viewing environment, the type of light box you are viewing your hard copy proof in (we prefer a dual iluminant light box like the GTI SOFV-1ex), and especially the white temperature of the proofing paper itself. One single white point temperature, whether it's D50, D65, or somewhere in between, is not sufficient to accomodate a flexible softproofing workflow of any usable specificity. We work with multiple magazines so this is important to us.
We have multiple users set up in our Mac OS X configuration and we switch between them via Fast User Switching. I have each user calibrated to a different white point, user A is set at 5300K, user B at 5400K, user C at 5800K, and so on. We arrived at these by visual testing of the monitor paper whites against the actual proofing stocks in the GTI light box. We found we get a much greater degree of accuracy and specificity this way. The monitor white point needs to be visually confirmed against the proofing stock under your optimized viewing conditions.
HTH,
Steve
Steven Hirsch, Systems Manager
Hachette Filipacchi Media, U. S.
212-767-6536
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From: colorsync-users-bounces+shirsch=email@hidden on behalf of Carlo Lavatori
Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2005 8:50 AM
To: ColorSync
Subject: Eizo CG 21 and White Point...
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My prepress service just bought a couple of Eizo CG 21....
They have been calibrated to 5.000 K white point
I remember reading that it's much more preferable to calibrate them at their native white point,
which should be around 6.500 K,
but I could not explain to them the reason why....
But besides that, how much the images I see in my Eizo calibrated at 6500K will difference, once viewed in their 5000K calibrated Eizo?
thanks
Carlo
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