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Bought a Spyder4 Elite to calibrate my Dual Monitor setup and also to match Online Printing company

2014-02-18 by <pekkle168@...>

I recently asking a online printing company for help on match my screen colors to their printers, and as their suggestion was a Spyder4. So I bought the elite and hoping it will match, but after receiving the product and no where did it mention it will match any of the printing standards have me did a little more research. It seems there is no way to use a Spyder4 Elite to calibrate the monitor so it will closely match the printing company's GRACol2006_Coated1v2.icc standard. or is there a way I can calibrate with Spyder4 to match that profile?

Also, after calibrate my monitor, it seems the colors are a bit more washed out, not sure if I am looking at over saturated colors before or what, but it does seems a little washed out.

Lastly, after calibrated my two monitors, the colors are better matched than before, but still there is a difference, I know we can manually adjust the settings, but if I can do that I wouldn't need the Spyder4 to begin with.

Can any experts here shine some light as what I am expecting is realistic or I am simply asking too much from the Spyder4?

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