Re: Eizo CG 21 and White Point...
Re: Eizo CG 21 and White Point...
- Subject: Re: Eizo CG 21 and White Point...
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 11:45:56 -0400
Most monitors use 8-bit to drive the image. If calibrated to other than
their native white point, one might run into banding in gradients.
The Eizo uses more bits, which alleviates that problem.
I read Roger Breton's answer to your post and agree totally.
Match to a viewing booth = D50 for printing and for multimedia work and
"in isolation" = D65.
I'd take a reading off the white of the paper stock you are proofing
to in the viewing booth and calibrate and profile to that.
However, I've found that unless the print in the viewing light and the
image on the display remains in view simultaneously, my eyes adjust in
an instant. I can make color adjustments in D65 and make a print on my
9600 put it under a 5000K light, then turn my head to the display
calibrated to D65 and see that I have a perfect match. Image opened in
photoshop and monitor profile selected. If I step back and see them
both at the the same time I have to change my display to the D50
profile to see a match. In either case my prints are the color I
expected.
Ambient light and colors are very important.
I cant work in a cave. I work by a window that faces north. I find that
my impression of color changes with the time of day, because of the
ambient light and the weather. By my printer i have another display at
D50 with a viewing light and grey walls and no windows. If it's night
or a cloudy day especially, I will consult this display for an unbiased
color impression.
Final evaluation will be in the light that the print will be viewed
under. If a fine art print that could be daylight.
Ulf Skogsbergh
On Wednesday, May 11, 2005, at 08:50 AM, Carlo Lavatori wrote:
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?
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