Digital BW, The Print

>  From: Robert Morrison <rmorrison@...>
> 
> Andrew, thanks for copy of the black test.  Wondering if you have had any
> experience with the apple LCD's?

Not a lot. I've seen them, played with them but don't own one (or would buy
one yet due to the price and viewing angle issues which are getting better).
When I can get a Cinema for the price of an Artisan WITH colorimeter, I'm
there. 

>On my apple LCD 17 I seem to pick up a
> 2/2/2 ok...but my problem is that the monitor is so bright that prints
> simply don't match as well as with my Lacie III for which I can only pick up
> 4/4/4.  My hunch is that the problem is with my calibration software
> (colorvision's photocal or optical) which doesn't allow for good brightness
> setting with the Apple LCD monitors.

The issues to look into are NOT just when you can start to view separation
in values but how neutral all steps are! Ideally you want to start seeing
separation after zero or 1 and each step up to a pretty high level is
neutral or very close to neutral.

Andrew Rodney