General Colour Management FAQ's
What's the difference between profiling a CRT monitor and an LCD monitor?
When profiling a CRT monitor, you usually have access to an On Screen Menu on your monitor which allows you to change various aspects of the monitors performance, including contrast, brightness and RGB gain. Many LCD monitors don't have this facility.
Additionally, LCD monitors do not have true RGB 'guns'. They are simulated digitally.
Consequently, when profiling a CRT monitor, you should use every facility available to get the most accurate result. With an LCD monitor, it is usually best to reset the monitor to its factory defaults and during the profiling process, ignore or skip past the screens that ask you to adjust and measure contrast and RGB values. Only use the brightness measurement facility. This is obviously dependant on your monitor, as some high quality LCD monitors, such as the Eizo ColorEdge, can be fully controlled.
Other LCD tips:
When using the Monaco Optix system, select the option to profile only, not calibrate and profile. Only make adjustments for brightness.
With the Spyder2, select the Standard Mode, choose 2.2 for your Gamma and choose Native Whitepoint. Click the Callibrate button and do not make any adjustments during the process when the program asks you to. Do not run the PreCal program on an LCD.
With the Eye-One Display 2, choose the easy option and only make adjustments for brightness.
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