Anyone hardware profiled a MacBook screen?
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Re: Anyone hardware profiled a MacBook screen?
Andrew Booth
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Since the colour response otherwide looked good, I'm wondering
whether this is a problem that could be calibrated-out using a
hardware calibrator. I own a GMB Eye One Display 2.
Hi,
No final word - but a first status. We have received our test machine (intend to order 20 for the next project) today, and of course I gave it a try. I have no Gretag colorimeter but the Spyder2Pro.
Findings:
Calibration (expert mode) went well and - as I have said in another thread - the MB glossy screen is nowhere as bad as I have expected it to be. Glare is an issue though, in a terrible environment (lights from the top, windows (real ones) on the and side you start moving your head like a tennis referee - maybe I have to adjust to it.
I have been able to produce some (5 or 6 A3 and A4, not more time available) really good prints using Aperture and a Canon i9950 printer. Colours were spot on. Contrast seems to be the real problem (indirectly). The higher contrast of the screen results in the image to look sharper on the screen, resulting in sharpening to become guesswork. (the same applies to your mentioned higlight/shadows issue - calibration seems to squeeze out a few more steps between grey and white/black, but it is certainly not as good as on the MBP screen)
I have tried only one black and white image (this comment may be off, as the i9950 is certainly not a printer to use for this task), and - please treat this statement with severe scepticism - I have been far off with black and white points. The image looked perfect on screen - it was a grey soup when printed.
Temporary conclusions (more testing needed for fairness):
colour calibration is possible and reliable
sharpening cannot be reliably evaluated on screen, you will need to sharpen more in order to print what you see
black and white processing (to professional expectations) will require an external monitor for sure (and certainly a different printer, but that's another topic).
Hope this servers as a temporary statement.
Cheers,
Uwe
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