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Imagine a small orchard of Apple iMac screens to calibrate. Spyder 2
Pro and about 10 minutes per machine once the software is loaded? A
typical education setup - all networked.

Has anyone had experience with multiple screens like this? Any
shortcuts to have all the screens singing off the same hymn sheet. For
example, since all the machines are from the same manufacturer,
(probably all made in the same batch) can we calibrate say 5 machines,
average the profiles and then apply that to all the machines?

Any ideas? This is a situation where the instructor needs to know that
each student has a consistently calibrated screen to demonstrate
colour correction etc. - its not a production environment where minor
variations would be critical.

Would standardising the Black and white luminance settings help? Any
recommendations?

Thanks

No novel suggestions or rules of thumb from me, except to say what you
already probably know.  A basic starting point is to make sure that all the
monitors have the same basic ambient light on their viewing environment and
the same basic device hardware settings on each monitor before applying the
Spyder to any or all of them.  I am not sure if I would assume that one can
use an average sampling method to define a single appropriate profile to use
on all the monitors even if the monitors are LCDs.  I will assume that each
monitor is or may not be used uniformly the same amounts each and every hour
of the day, each and every day of the academic year so as to age uniformly.
The degree to which this will vary may effect the degree to which there will
be variations in the calibrations and profiles of the different individual
monitors.

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Subject: [colorvision_group] 30 Monitors to calibrate - Help!

 

Imagine a small orchard of Apple iMac screens to calibrate. Spyder 2
Pro and about 10 minutes per machine once the software is loaded? A
typical education setup - all networked.

Has anyone had experience with multiple screens like this? Any
shortcuts to have all the screens singing off the same hymn sheet. For
example, since all the machines are from the same manufacturer,
(probably all made in the same batch) can we calibrate say 5 machines,
average the profiles and then apply that to all the machines?

Any ideas? This is a situation where the instructor needs to know that
each student has a consistently calibrated screen to demonstrate
colour correction etc. - its not a production environment where minor
variations would be critical.

Would standardising the Black and white luminance settings help? Any
recommendations?

Thanks