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If I did not still have one working CRT I doubt I could make a decent print, not that the world would notice.
Despite calibrating consumer grade LCD panels using a variety of devices, setting the brightness/contrast settings on the panel to factory default (as recommended by Spyder et al) or adjusting the white point to a specific target value (e.g. 110-120) prints come out too dark.
Perhaps it is simply impossible to predict what the brightness values will be in a print when looking at a backlit LCD using current technology. The calibration device manufacturers do not have an answer for this and the instructions they give (use factory default settings) are guaranteed to perpetuate the problem.
Fortunately by comparing a variety of ready to print images on my calibrated CRT that were processed in CS3 on a calibrated LCD panel I have been able to generate some default curves that I apply to images just prior to printing. For best quality however I have to review the image to be printed on the computer attached to the CRT which is inconvenient (the CRT computer and the printer are necessarily in distant physical locations on the network). The CRT monitor is not going to last forever.
Are there any reliable web sites where panels are tested for use in color managed printing, as opposed to playing computer games or watching movies, with detailed information about panel construction or specific workarounds that were applied to get WYSIWYG printing on the order of what is so easily achieved with a CRT?
Despite calibrating consumer grade LCD panels using a variety of devices, setting the brightness/contrast settings on the panel to factory default (as recommended by Spyder et al) or adjusting the white point to a specific target value (e.g. 110-120) prints come out too dark.
Perhaps it is simply impossible to predict what the brightness values will be in a print when looking at a backlit LCD using current technology. The calibration device manufacturers do not have an answer for this and the instructions they give (use factory default settings) are guaranteed to perpetuate the problem.
Fortunately by comparing a variety of ready to print images on my calibrated CRT that were processed in CS3 on a calibrated LCD panel I have been able to generate some default curves that I apply to images just prior to printing. For best quality however I have to review the image to be printed on the computer attached to the CRT which is inconvenient (the CRT computer and the printer are necessarily in distant physical locations on the network). The CRT monitor is not going to last forever.
Are there any reliable web sites where panels are tested for use in color managed printing, as opposed to playing computer games or watching movies, with detailed information about panel construction or specific workarounds that were applied to get WYSIWYG printing on the order of what is so easily achieved with a CRT?
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