Hi Peter, Why are you re-profiling so often? Most modern displays are extremely stable, to the extent that re-reprofiling is likely to introduce more variation than you would notice by leaving the original profile in place and letting the monitors age naturally. The only change due to age I typically observe is a slight reduction in brightness, which is unimportant unless you regularly compare two or more monitors at the same time, side-by-side. BTW, LTNS. How you doing? Don ........................................................ Don Hutcheson HutchColor, LLC Washington, NJ 07882, USA office: (908) 689 7403 cell: (908) 500 0341 ........................................................ On Jun 01, 2014, at 15:00 , colorsync-users-request@lists.apple.com wrote:

Subject: setting a default monitor profile on OS 10.8 Message-ID: <30A71761-F3A8-44B8-B319-E2DC30C223DC@imagoimaging.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii

Hi Colorsyncers-

I have a problem that I'm hoping one of you has seen before and solved.

I manage a very large set of Design workstations (over 250). These are all Mac. We have some high-end displays on these workstations that we re-calibrate every few months. In the past, our technical staff have made arrangements with end-users to come up and do the calibration while the end-user was logged in. We would like to change our process so technical staff can do these calibrations in the evening without the end-user logged in. However, getting the profile set correctly when the end-user logs in in the morning seems problematic. Staff doing the calibration have full admin access to the Macs but cannot log into the end-user account to set the profile.

It looks like I can create a command line tool in XCode to set the default user profile but I'd prefer a more straightforward method, if one exists.

I can move the newly-created monitor profile to the non-user, System location, but Colorsync Utility doesn't allow me to set the default profile to a profile other than one set to a factory default.

These are all Macs running Mountain Lion.

Thanks for any guidance you are able to provide!

Regards,

_peter

Peter Constable Sr. Manager, Color & Imaging Technologies Coach, Inc.