Barry, As for the Eizo, we are the company who first calibrated to our ASIC ( Eizo designed and built chipset) entirely via USB. We do this in both medical imaging and a selection of "professional" and graphics monitors.Simply put, if you calibrate, unplug and move the monitor to another computer, the profile will remain. An icc. profile appied to the chip gives you the best possile results for calibrating "to the numbers". With Eizo-designed ColorNavigator software, the are even more ways of achieving accurate results, such as manually inputting primaries. There are several ways to profile the monitor depending on what you want to achieve and what devices you can meausre with- we support most all  of the devices and our new internal deivce can be correllated to high-end refernce devices. Any more info would be way to salesy for the blog. Feel free to contact me offline if you need any more info. As for La Cie, I am aware of how they calibrate (since our Japanese R&D division has tested them), but it would be inappropriate to answer for LaCie, or the company who manufactures their displays. Tom Gadbois Graphics Specialist Eizo North America --- On Thu, 10/6/11, colorsync-users-request@lists.apple.com <colorsync-users-request@lists.apple.com> wrote: From: colorsync-users-request@lists.apple.com <colorsync-users-request@lists.apple.com> Subject: Colorsync-users Digest, Vol 8, Issue 222 To: colorsync-users@lists.apple.com Date: Thursday, October 6, 2011, 12:01 PM Send Colorsync-users mailing list submissions to     colorsync-users@lists.apple.com To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit     http://lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/colorsync-users or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to     colorsync-users-request@lists.apple.com You can reach the person managing the list at     colorsync-users-owner@lists.apple.com When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Colorsync-users digest..." Today's Topics:    1. Where is monitor hardware calibration stored? (Wheeler, Barry) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2011 14:55:35 -0400 From: "Wheeler, Barry" <bwhe@loc.gov> Subject: Where is monitor hardware calibration stored? To: "'colorsync-users@lists.apple.com'"     <colorsync-users@lists.apple.com> Message-ID:     <23CFE6A5AD05E34EBCAD84B004C313BA01F83DB5BC@LCXCLMB01.LCDS.LOC.GOV> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hi - We current use Windows XP with no hope of changing anytime soon.  This makes color managing our monitors difficult because XP requires admin privledges to write a profile and to apply a profile.  (These are two separate actions.)  Our security policies do not allow users adlmin rights making color management very difficult. But many of our QA workstations have Eizo or LaCie monitors which allow monitor calibration via the monitor internal LUT rather than the video card LUT.  I wonder if either monitor stores current calibration data internally?  Apparently the LaCie monitor does because after admin calibration I find no file in the profile directory yet our tests show the monitor is deplaying colors correctly.  The Eizo software stores a very small .icm file in the C:\WINDOWS\system32\spool\drivers\color directory, but it doesn't appear to contain full LUT data. So my questions for only Eizo and LaCie monitors calibrated using Eico and LaCie programs and spectros are:                Is calibration data stored in the monitor internally?                If so, is this sufficient?  What advantage is gained through an .icc profile? Thanks, Barry F. Barry Wheeler, Digital Projects Coordinator, Office of Strategic Initiatives, The Library of Congress Washington, DC 20540 bwhe@loc.gov                 202 707 8581 ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Colorsync-users mailing list Colorsync-users@lists.apple.com http://lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/colorsync-users End of Colorsync-users Digest, Vol 8, Issue 222 ***********************************************