I don't believe photoshop uses icc profile you made for your nec monitor.

This doesn't make sense to me. Not sure what you are trying to say. When I use softproof, I select the Canon paper that I am going to print on which is the ICC profile for that paper. If I want to download it to Adorama for printing, I choose the ICC profile for their paper. And as far as purchasing a nongraphics monitor, I didn't want to take a chance that it wouldn't stay calibrated for more than 24 hours which is what happened with the current monitor I was using. So I'm glad you are happy with your $500 monitor. Just in case you haven't looked at Shutterbug magazine website, there was an article I read about nongraphics monitors in which the writer had two monitors which were the same models and one wouldn't stay calibrated and the other would. Rather than go through the trial and error of purchasing a $500 monitor and possibly having the same problem, I made the decision to spend more and get the NEC monitor which is just as good as yours.

Subject: Re: Un-Calibrated Monitors and Calibrated with Spectraview From: csync@colorforest.net Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 18:52:35 -0400 To: lgw_lynn@hotmail.com

I don't believe photoshop uses icc profile you made for your nec monitor. If i am not wrong since ver 5.5 (this is what i use), maybe also ver cs5 can use icc profiles on external monitor. If you use cs3, cs4 or maybe even cs5 photoshop will not use icc profile on secondary monitor. What I suggest you do connect your nec, move menus to it to be primary. Calibrate and open photoshop. As long as mac menu are on your nec it should work fine.

There is no problem with using cheap monitors as long as this is not on the laptop and is not a secondary monitor. I am using hp LP2475w and I am very happy with it. I think I paid about $500 for it. I bet it is as good as yours. I am using i1 pro and color eyes display for calibration. My monitor and my printers (epson 9800 and 4880) are dead on. Printers are profiled with isis and calibrated Once a week.

Best Regards,

Derek Lambert