"Quickie" Mac screen calibration software which seems to work

[Godfrey DiGiorgi]

On Mar 7, 2008, at 4:06 PM, Charles Robinson wrote:

>> On the ACD 23", it produces a screen calibration that's way off the
>> mark from what the Eye One Display 2 unit calibrates my screen for.
>> Very cold and bluish to my eye. I prefer the colorimeter setting, I
>> use 130 Luminance, 1.8 gamma, and 5500K white point.
>>
>
> Rats.
>
> But it's still heaps better on the Macbook than how it shipped!   
> (sigh)
>
> I supposed there is a "human element" in there too.   Oddly enough,
> though, what I ended up with was WARMER than what both the default and
> "apple-calibration" procedures gave me.
>
> I have a friend with a calibration tool who is going to bring it in to
> work next week, and we'll see what that does.  Thanks for checkin it
> out, Godfrey!

I may try another time, see how variable it is. But any calibration  
based on human eye matching colors is bound to have a certain  
variability. Not to say that colorimeters are perfect either, but  
they're more consistent.

The Eye One Display 2 unit has saved massive amounts of time, paper  
and ink. Paid for itself a long time ago.

Godfrey