Digital BW, The Print

> From: Ken Carney [mailto:kcarney1@...]
>
> I have a Sony 21" Multiscan E500 monitor.  When profiling with Optical 3.7
> Pro, I cannot get the brightness levels low enough, nor the
> contrast levels
> high enough.  I have tried experimenting with the bias controls
> in addition
> to the gain controls for RGB, with no better results.  The b&w
> prints (Epson
> 2200 with OEM inks and IP6, on PR 308) look good, but it bothers
> me that the
> monitor is not within the range that Optical wants.

The pre-calibration merely optimizes the monitor settings, so that the rest
of the calibration (the video lookup tables) don't have as much "work" to
do. More precisely, pre-calibration allows most of the range of the video
DACs to be used, for the largest number of steps from black to white. But if
you can't match the standards, you're still okay, as long as the monitor can
go all the way from black to whatever brightness you require for white.
You'll just have a somewhat smaller number of steps between black and white.

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Ciao,               Paul D. DeRocco
Paul                mailto:pderocco@...