Monitor Specs Utility

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Roberto
Jul 7, 2004
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This is a promissing tool from:

http://www.entechtaiwan.com/

It’s called Monitor Asset Manager and can give detailed info on Plug&Play monitors. I haven’t tried it yet, but it’s supposed to give me, among other things, data on the chromaticities (the phosophors setup also used in Adobe Gamma). I’ll get back to you when I try it out.

Oh, yeah. It’s free for personal use, too!

And here’s where I found out about it:

http://www.aim-dtp.net\aim\photoshop\index.htm
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Roberto
Jul 7, 2004
It works nicely. It extracts all relevant DDC data from the monitor. Also, be sure to read the callibration tutorial at the link I posted in order to put the data to good use.

Since color management’s been a constant issue these days, I’d like to point out that it is NOT imperative to calibrate to gamma 2.2 on Windows systems.

The uncallibrated PC monitor is usually set at gamma 2.5, a Mac monitor at gamma 1.72. So, neither 1.8 nor 2.2 are hardware gamma of the devices. sRGB, AFAIK is gamma 2.0 and some monitors support switching to sRGB (making them gamma 2.0). You can calibrate most monitors to anything between gamma 1.4 (which is the lower limit according to some sources) to 2.5 (and possibly above 2.7) and it makes a huge difference. For prepress work it is recommended by some that gamma 1.8 should be used since most prepress shops are Mac-based, hence calibrated to that gamma.

Also keep in mind that any gamma that is not 1.0 is non-linear, i.e, values are not distributed evenly. Therefore, there are suggestions that target gamma should be at 1.0 (which can be done, and doesn’t feel awkward at all). The link I posted deals with gamma 1.0 working space. I haven’t seen convincing arguments from the author, but he sure seems like someone who knows what he talking about. The bottom line is that all things in the analog world are linear (gamma 1.0) and there’s no reason why any CM’d workflow shouldn’t be linear.

In practice, and IMO, gamma 1.8 is close(er) to accurate than gamma 2.2, which is somewhat darker than the actual print (I’m talking about offset printers).

And be sure to check out filters at:

http://www.aim-dtp.net/aim/plug-ins/fifo/index.htm

"Branko Vukelic" wrote in message
This is a promissing tool from:

http://www.entechtaiwan.com/

It’s called Monitor Asset Manager and can give detailed info on Plug&Play monitors. I haven’t tried it yet, but it’s supposed to give me, among other things, data on the chromaticities (the phosophors setup also used in Adobe Gamma). I’ll get back to you when I try it out.
Oh, yeah. It’s free for personal use, too!

And here’s where I found out about it:

http://www.aim-dtp.net\aim\photoshop\index.htm

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