Digital BW, The Print

In a message dated 7/22/02 7:27:43 PM, hartzell@... writes:

>Can you get away with using one of the custom dot-gain tricks (like
>the one described in the list files area) to match the monitor to the
>output, or does it really need to be calibrated?

Dot gain generally only makes a single overall correction to the gamma. In my 
experience the Apple LCDs need much more tweaking than that to offer accurate 
grays, expecially in the shadow areas. This could all be done manually 
(unlike color correction, its a 2d correction, not 3d, thus possible, if 
inconvenient) but how are you going to determine the corrections; by eye? And 
what about those times when you want to view color?
 
It really makes the most sense just to calibrate it like any monitor.

C. David Tobie
Design Cooperative
CDTobie@...