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jk wrote:
Eric wrote:I suppose it depends on how much printing you intend to do.
I did the Spyder calibration bit. Then discovered the ambient lighting in the room and time of day etc influenced screen appearance to the point that you are 'supposed' to have different profiles to suit. I ended up with spring morning, spring afternoon, winter morning, winter afternoon...and an evening profile. I was continually forgetting to reset the screen to match the time of day/ year...never got any complaints from my customers that their printing was off-colour. So I sold the Spyder. Modern quality monitors are pretty accurate out of the box.
Close the curtains.
It concentrates the mind and also removes stray light.
The viewers of my printed images were never told to sit in a specific lighting condition for correct rendition of the final print....so why should I?
The problem with all this calibration lark is that unless everyone who receives your images has a similarly calibrated monitor, iPad, laptop or tv, they will ALL see something different to your screen.
I've seen quite a few renditions of my artwork on printers and publishers screens while proof reading prior to going to press. In the last 10 years, I've never said "hold the press that doesn't look right!", due to colour or contrast irregularities.
Forgive me for being a tad dismissive but unless the monitor you have is waaaaay out of calibration, I think it's straining at gnats.
I think that the need to calibrate the screen is very marginal now.
I have been calibrating my screens for a while now (about 14 years).
I had one of the original Spyders and that worked well for CRT and TFTs.
I Use that original Spyder to calibrate my Dell U2407HM (24" screen - TFT monitor) when I got it back in 2007. I have upgraded to a pair of Dell U2713HM (30" screen - LED monitor) theya re both calibrated with the Spyder 3 and are very good they match the UM2407 for colour rendering.
I was sent an offer to upgrade to the Spyder 5 as the Spyder 3/4 software is no longer supported. There was all sort of BS marketing hype about the Spyder 5 software being better and supported. The old software still runs on the latest version of Mac OSX 10.11.5 and calibrates bot screens.
The Spyder 3/4/5 can calibrate TFT and LED monitors.
The Spyder 3 can also calibrate twin monitor systems even though Datacolor say it cant!!
I cant see any reason to upgrade to a Spyder 5.
Maybe if the Spyder 4 software refuses to work on a futre version of MacOS then I will upgrade.
The Spyder 3 (as does the Spyder 5) has a holder for the spectrophotometer so it adjusts the calibration if the light changes. I have a set of curtains I draw if the light changes or is too bright in the room if I am editing.
I dont print very often these days as most requests for print are for 50x40" prints or larger!! I am certainly not going to buy a printer that can do 40" wide prints.
Prints on glossy paper should look similar (to a calibrated monitor) if the printer is well profiled but on other paper types it wil be 'different' due to the paper/canvas finish.
My profiles from the Spyder 3 need little or no adjustment year on year. I used to test monthly now I do it yearly.
CRTs do drift so I recommend that unless you must have one that you invest in a LED monitor.
Like Eric says most people's screens on their PCs are adjusted so badly as people mess with them unecessarily adjusting to make a colour match (by eye) what they think it should be!!!
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