Digital BW, The Print

> From: Ken Carney
>
> I thought someone on the list might know the answer to this - I can't find
> it.  My monitor is the Samsung 213T and I'm using the Pantone Spyder and
> OptiCal Pro.  The only instructions for an LCD monitor relate to the Apple
> 21" Cinema display, and suggest setting brightness to 50% and contrast to
> max before calibrating.  Is this the case for LCD's in general, or more
> specifically mine? Thx for any help.

That's pretty common advice, although a lot of LCDs don't have those
settings, only backlight brightness. However, if you have OptiCal, then you
have PreCal (unless they've folded that functionality into OptiCal
recently), and that should guide you as to how to set the controls.

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Ciao,               Paul D. DeRocco
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