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Color Calibration

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Limp Gawd
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I got sick of having my prints come out nothing like they were shown in Photoshop. (What did I expect from three 6-bit TN gaming panels?) I broke down and picked up an Asus PA246 monitor today, and ignoring the one dead red pixel (grr) it is *so* much better at color. I set the monitor itself, Windows 7, Photoshop, and my printer to AdobeRGB1998. I printed a 24 color test card and everything's great except the reds on the monitor are a bit more vivid than on my print.

I have a Pantone Huey Pro that I used to color match my three original monitors to each other, but when I use it on the new Asus it just screws everything up. Everything has a green cast, the colors don't match prints, etc...

What are you guys using for calibration? I could live with how close the monitor is to the print now (it's tons closer than it used to be), but I'd like to get it closer if possible. Should I adjust the red down on the display menu, or is there usually an adjustment on the printer I can use to bring up the red? It could just be an emitted versus reflected light thing.

I haven't even touched the scanner yet.

The printer is a Canon Pixma Pro 9000 MK II.
 
I have a X-Rite EODIS2 Eye-One Display 2. Got it to correct the very noticable saturated color cast of my wide gamut Dell 30 inch ips monitor, noticeable on reds and greens. For a while there was talk that some of the color profilers couldn't handle the wide gamut monitors -- maybe that is the case with the one you have?

What color temp, gamma and brighness are you using? In my Eye-one software I have "Native White", 2.2 gamma and 120 lumen for the display. My room has overhead flurescent lights, which are actually too bright, and due to the colors on my well make the room color temp to warm. If I want to get it all setup right I'd need to only use 2 maybe even 1 bulb in the ceilling, or just have a floor light behind me. Make sure you are comparing the print in the same lighting conditions, and then your print is reflective and your monitor is emittive -- what ever the technical terminology is for that.

Now that my monitor is calibrated it is nice for use in Photoshop and Capture NX2(Nikon raw image software). Don't do a lot of printing. Trying to get a bunch of photos together to send to BayPhoto.com and get printed. Windows 7 desktop is annoyingly not color profile aware, so I have a setting in Capture NX2 to reverse the profile so it looks right on the desktop.

I'd like to profile my film scanner and my deskscanner. Not sure where to go to get the film test stuff, or which one to buy.
 
I use a eye one calibrator with the Coloreyes Display pro software (I found it to calibrate better/more settings). My prints on my Canon Pixma Pro 9000 matches whats on my screen. But I use QImage to print (lots of tweaks and it is the best print manager IMO for professional home prints). Both of my monitors are Dell U3011 SIPS panels/monitors.
 
Thanks for the suggestions. I might have to pick up an Eye One eventually. I have monitor saturation turned down a bit in Photoshop so I can get by for now.
 
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