Calibration issues with I1 and Dell

I have been using my Eye one display 2 (latest software) on Os X Leopard and trying to calibrate my new Dell U2410 and my intel macbook pro 15"

Im very confused about the results of calibrations i have performed on both these monitors. The profiling seems to be wildly different every time i calibrate to the previous calibration i performed, and i ssimply cant get the laptop to match the LCD.

Seems that its too green, too magenta, too red, you name it.

I was expecting a little more consistancy between calibrating sessions, but the results seems to be way out.

Anyone got any advice about how to bring this all into line?
Thanks in Advance

Try Argyll http://www.argyllcms.com + the front end http://hoech.net/dispcalGUI/
It is the best and also free soft for calibration, works with OSX/WIN/Linux...

Here a guide http://www.juliengille.com/...tor-calibration-with-argyll-cms-and-dispcalgui/

Try this settings instead the one from the guide



Also take a look at the way they calibrate U2410 here http://www.tftcentral.co.uk/reviews/content/dell_u2410.htm#calibration

Thanks for your help. I found the TFT central link very useful indeed. It turns out that the 'standard' setting in the monitor is giving me the best results after hardware calibration and profiling.

The link to julienjilles does not work.

Edit: found it:

http://www.juliengille.com/en/blog/2010/04/monitor-calibration-with-argyll-cms-and-dispcalgui/

I also have problems since I bought my new Dell U2410. I didn’t find a proper solution yet, but my current knowledge is that your problems are not about calibration. Dell is a wide gamut monitor, but MacBook Pro only has a laptop LCD with a smaller color space like sRGB.

My current knowledge about the problem is:

When you’re talking about “Seems that its too green, too magenta, too red, you name it.” it means that all the colors you see on Dell are oversaturated. Why?

Wide Gamut

Dell has much wider color space than the older monitors. It’s color space is very close to Adobe RGB. And when an application sends a pure green pixel (RGB 0, 255, 0) to the screen, the brightest green will be displayed. The brightest green is much brighter on a wide gamut monitors (Dell) than on those older sRGB color space monitors (on MacBook laptop).

When you’re using a color managed application like PhotoShop it knows how to adjust the signal sent to your display based on your monitor profile which is why you’ll see your photos correctly. But when you’re using a non-color managed application (like Firefox) then the signal sent to the monitor will be unadjusted which means all of the colors will be completely oversaturated.

Well this is a good theory now. In practice I still didn’t find a solution how to export a photo that I will see correctly on my monitor using a Firefox or Internet Explorer, but at the same time also on the other monitors. I can see the proper colors as long as I export them with my monitor profile and in case when the web sites where I publish a photo don’t strip off the color profile. But as soon as I publish a photo on a FaceBook they strip off my color profile and convert it to sRGB and then any photo looks awful.

Firefox does have colour management capability whereas IE doesn't. The safest bet for anything you export for web viewing is to assign sRGB.

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Hi thanks.

In the meantime I found the solution to this.

Yes. You’re right about Firefox is a color managed application. At least the latest version 3.6.12 that I have now. Previously I had an older version which wasn’t.

No. Internet Explorer is also color managed application but it should be 9.0. All the older versions like 8.0, 7.0 and older aren’t. My problem was I used 8.0 until a few days ago.

Now I think my problems are solved