Digital BW, The Print

The dual profile capability would certainly be helpful in some cases, but in mine I just use 
the second monitor for palettes so it doesn't matter much.  It does make the swatches 
"correct", but I hardly use them anyway.

So it depends on your use.  With a notebook, you could make the alternate display "right", 
leaving the notebook for palettes, and then when disconnected from the big display just 
choose the monitor profile for the notebook screen again.

Incidentally, in my limited efforts I did not get the two displays to look identical even when 
they were each using their calibrated profiles.  Maybe because the second display is quite 
old?

Scott

-- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Sam McCandless <samcc@v...> 
wrote:
> Thanks to Scott Graham for settling this dual-display question.
> 
> It seems to me that a dual-display Mac system is either superior or 
> appreciably less expensive as a result; again, especially for anyone 
> who needs/wants a notebook, as I do, partly as a traveling companion 
> for a digital camera.
> --
> Sam
> 
> 
> >At 11:04 AM -0700 8/16/04, Paul D. DeRocco wrote:
> >>[snip]
> >>... two monitors can also be a plus. However, be aware that Windows
> >>can't do independent color management on two different monitors,
> >
> >But a Mac can?
> 
> At 4:07 PM +0000 8/18/04, Scott Graham wrote:
> >Yes, Macs can use two independent profiles for two different monitors.
> 
> 
> >  >so if you go that [Windows] route, either reserve one monitor for displaying
> >>pictures, or get two identical monitors.
> >>[snip]
> >
> >Are identical monitors _that_ identical? I wouldn't have thought so.
> >And in any case, couldn't the palette display be enough smaller than
> >the image display to make identical displays appreciably more
> >expensive?
> >
> >My impression is that a palette display needn't be larger than a
> >notebook's screen, and that someone who needs a notebook anyway might
> >get a very economical - of space as well as money - workstation by
> >using a desktop-replacement notebook together with a second, usually
> >larger and probably better, display for images. But I agree that it
> >would be nice to see the same colors on the notebook's screen as on
> >the image display, especially if the notebook is a traveling
> >companion for a digital camera.
> >--
> >Sam, who thinks that, for a photographer, system design should
> >_start_ with the displays