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I've recently bought spyder3 pro, and I i've calibrated monitor several times now, with different set-ups, different sofware versions ( i first installed the latest one from your site, then i uninstalled it and tried the one that was in the CD bundled with spyder3. NOTHING seems to work I keep getting this strong green cast.

My monitor has these:
-RBG sliders
-contrast
-brightness

I've tried it with telling the software:
-I have rgb sliders and backlight
-I have rgb sliders and contrast + brightness
-I have rgb sliders and back light contrast and brightness (this one with the 3.04)
-I have no rgb sliders, no contrast, no brightness and backlight only

With all these setups i've tried following preset targets:
2.2 6500
2.2 6500 LCD
2.2 Native

Nothing, and nothign seems to work and I keep getting this green cast. I know some people have said that the get shocked after the calibration results, as they've been used to blue tint, but this is just something else. The grays are green-gray, the blues are lighter blues, and the color magenta is almost inexistant ( i really have to pump up the colour balance to magenta in ps if i want it ) and this calibration matches my prints even worse than the old one ( that was on uncalibrated monitor ).

Any ideas?

As I recall, I had a similar problem with my Viewsonic monitor and sent a file to one of the Datacolr folks here.  It was determined that it was my monitor.  Switched monitors, updated software and have no issues to date.

Using Spyder 3 pro and latest software.

Thanks






--- In datacolor_group@yahoogroups.com, "christianwesterlund" <christianwesterlund@...> wrote:

>
> I've recently bought spyder3 pro, and I i've calibrated monitor several times now, with different set-ups, different sofware versions ( i first installed the latest one from your site, then i uninstalled it and tried the one that was in the CD bundled with spyder3. NOTHING seems to work I keep getting this strong green cast.
> 
> My monitor has these:
> -RBG sliders
> -contrast
> -brightness
> 
> I've tried it with telling the software:
> -I have rgb sliders and backlight
> -I have rgb sliders and contrast + brightness
> -I have rgb sliders and back light contrast and brightness (this one with the 3.04)
> -I have no rgb sliders, no contrast, no brightness and backlight only
> 
> With all these setups i've tried following preset targets:
> 2.2 6500
> 2.2 6500 LCD
> 2.2 Native
> 
> Nothing, and nothign seems to work and I keep getting this green cast. I know some people have said that the get shocked after the calibration results, as they've been used to blue tint, but this is just something else. The grays are green-gray, the blues are lighter blues, and the color magenta is almost inexistant ( i really have to pump up the colour balance to magenta in ps if i want it ) and this calibration matches my prints even worse than the old one ( that was on uncalibrated monitor ).
> 
> Any ideas?
>

On Oct 1, 2009, at 5:02 AM, christianwesterlund wrote:

> I've recently bought spyder3 pro, and I i've calibrated monitor  
> several times now, with different set-ups, different sofware  
> versions ( i first installed the latest one from your site, then i  
> uninstalled it and tried the one that was in the CD bundled with  
> spyder3. NOTHING seems to work I keep getting this strong green cast.
>
>
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Please open a tech support ticket about this in the Support section on
our web site; they should be able to take care of this for you  
there...! :-)


David Miller
Senior Software Developer, Digital Color Solutions
Datacolor