Digital BW, The Print

For some reason they don't want you to use PreCal with an LCD.  I know the
LCD doesn't have separate RGB guns like a CRT, but it seems the brightness
and contrast would still be useful.  I'll experiment - it doesn't cost
anything.  I've just noticed that with b&w or color prints, the soft
proofing adjustments with IP6 profiles to match the print seem pretty
extreme.  What caught my eye, so to speak, was downloading the Kodak
profiles for their "professional" RC paper to use with a Canon dye printer -
the prints came out way too dark.  (That's "RGB" b&w BTW, since it appears
the gray profiles in IP6 don't work with PS soft proofing.)

  --Ken 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com 
> [mailto:DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com] On 
> Behalf Of Paul D. DeRocco
> Sent: Saturday, August 06, 2005 8:51 PM
> To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: RE: [Digital BW] LCD calibration question
> 
> > 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.