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 What is monitor calibration and profiling, and why do you need to do it? Well, a calibrator helps you select and calibrate to a ‘colour temperature’ of (typically) 5000K or 6500K and a tone-response (gamma) of 1.8 or 2.2. With these products, calibration is carried out using the monitor’s controls and your choices of setting. Having selected the calibration we wish for, the profiling is done... that is, the actual colours produced by the monitor are recorded, and used to create an ICC profile that can then used to help ensure that colours displayed on the screen are accurate.
Product Tree | Level | Product | Description | | Introductory | Adobe Gamma | A useful tool to help with basic monitor calibration, provided free with products like Adobe Photoshop. However, this only calibrates, and does not profile. Much improvements can be made to this product - but hey - it’s free! | | Beginner | ColorVision ColorPlus | The original LCD/CRT Monitor Spyder with ColorPlus software (Windows only). The software guides you through the profiling process, but does not offer you any real option for controlling the process. Of course, as a hardware-based profiling tool, you can expect this to be a far more reliable and repeatable than Adobe Gamma.
Overall, we would anticipate that most of our customers would benefit from products of a higher level, such as the Spyder2 or Spyder2PRO Studio (see below). | | Better | ColorVision Monitor Spyder2 | The new Spyder2 with it’s new software is ColorVision’s mid-range monitor profiling solution. The software not only guides you through the calibration and profiling procedures, but also provides useful help at each stage. | | Better | ColorVision Monitor Spyder2 Plus | The new Spyder2 with it’s new software is ColorVision’s mid-range monitor profiling solution. The software not only guides you through the calibration and profiling procedures, but also provides useful help at each stage... and this specially priced bundle includes Profiler Plus software for profiling your printer (with your own flatbed scanner) - and PhotoShop Elements 3! | | Best | ColorVision Monitor Spyder2PRO Studio | The new Spyder2 with enhanced software is ColorVision’s top-end monitor profiling solution. The software not only guides you through the calibration and profiling procedures, but also provides useful help at each stage.
It also adds some more tools and facilities to get the best from a problem monitor, and inform you as to the processes in play to control the monitor. e.g. You can control the resulting profile. As well as being available stand-alone, this product combination is also available in a number of ColorVision bundles (and we also make it available in bundles with the Spectrocam. | | Best | Gretag Macbeth i1- Display2 or i1-Photo | With the new i1-Display2 for profiling screens, Gretag Macbeth have made their tools accessible to many more users, with the base price slap-bang in between the Spyder systems.
The i1-Photo (Eye-One) is a high-end spectrophotometer device, with software support for screen and printer profiling! | Please note that MWORDS has closed. We aim to retain these support pages in the hope that they may benefit our past customers, but regret that we can no longer offer further comment or support in relation to the information above.
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