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Re: [colorvision_group] Re: Advice on notebooks
2006-03-16 by CDTobie@aol.com
In a message dated 3/16/06 10:24:10 AM, ttrostel@... writes:
Yes ... but are they hardware calibrated at all in the factory when
they are manufactured? Its sure to vary from vendor to vendor but
they probably don't take the time to adjust each one individualy.
Thats one of the drawbacks to laptop design it seems.
PowerBooks have a reasonable, and reasonably consistant, native whitepoint. Given that you are not usually trying to match luminance and white tone to other monitors, calibrating them at native whitepoint is all that is usually necessary. Other brands vary. The new MacBooks are even brighter than the more recent, brighter, PowerBooks, so it may well be possible to run them at matching luminance to desktop systems. Probably the simplest way to do that will be to calibrate the MacBook at Native, see what that is, target it, and calibrate the other screens to match the MacBook's native whitepoint (color of white) and white luminance (screen brightness)...
C. David Tobie
Product Technology Manager
ColorVision Business Unit
Datacolor Inc.
CDTobie@...
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