Datacolor User to User Support Group.

this has gone from a rare odd problem to a near epidemic problem, obviously traced to the rise of the new monitors. As someone who meticulously calibrates output, and yet gets increasing complaints of client's prints darker than expected from the supplied files...
may I refer them all to you???<G>
Tyler

--- In datacolor_group@yahoogroups.com, C D Tobie <CDTobie@...> wrote:
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> On May 31, 2009, at 11:56 AM, malodiver wrote:
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> > I bought an Apple 23" Video display. Now despite callibration with  
> > Spyder II, Photoshop CS4 managing color, my prints are coming out  
> > dark and the shadows are all blocked up. I have been printing  
> > without problem for years with this sytem and a CRT
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> Well, have you lowered the brightness of the LCD all the way down yet?  
> And raised your ambient lighting a bit as well? Until you get that  
> balance right, you will find the LCD too contrasty, and your prints  
> darker than your screen.
> 
> C. David Tobie
> Global Product Technology Manager
> Digital Imaging & Home Theater
> CDTobie@...
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> Datacolor
> www.datacolor.com/Spyder3
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