Datacolor User to User Support Group.

> On Mar 3, 2017, at 11:42 AM, JN2@... [datacolor_group] <datacolor_group@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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> Despite what Datacolor will tell you, the Datacolor utility is not needed.
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That depends on how you define “needed”. If you mean that there is an OS level functionality in both Mac and Windows these days which can, if properly configured, load both a display profile for each display, and a LUT for each display, then yes, thats true, in the best of situations. Unfortunately, there are many less-than-perfect situations. So using Spyder display calibration software, without using a Spyder Utility is rather like driving your car without seatbelt, airbags, or a spare tire. If there is a conflict with another app that wished to control the display LUTs, or if your video card has other ideas about what should be loaded, or if there is some confusion between what LUT to load for each profile on a multiple display system, then you will get no corrections, nor any warnings, of the problems if you aren’t running a Spyder Utility. So, if you are the type of hot rod computer user who, metaphorically speaking, strips out all the safety features and dumps the spare tire, so that your system is lean and mean, and starts up two seconds faster, then nothing will stop you from doing this. However, its very poor advice for the average user.

C. D. Tobie