Combined Hard- And Software Calibration - NEC SpectraView Profiler 5 User Manual

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CRT monitors
Hardware calibratable CRTs need to be connected to the computer via
a digital data connection. That way color tem- perature, brightness and
contrast can be controlled. CRTs do not have any means to control the
gradation curves. The correction of the monitor gradation needs to be
done with video-LUTs in the video card. These are stored in 8 bit accu-
racy in the ICC-profile.
Hardware calibratable CRTs are not supported by SpectraView Profiler
5. All the parameters a hardware calibration would set automatically can
be set manually, but instrumented with the help of „Hardware setup" in
SpectraView Profiler 5.
For optimal calibration and profiling results for soft proofing and high-
end image retouching, basICColor recommends the use of hardware
calibratable LCD monitors.

4.3.2 Combined hard- and software calibration

Some modern monitors are offering a partial calibration in hardware (i.g.
Apple displays or some NEC MultiSync displays). This means some
adustments of the monitor can be done in hardware directly and some
adjustments have to be done via the graphic card's video LUT (Look
up table).SpectraView Profiler 5 is able to address this parameters of
the display directly in the hardware for some types of monitors (see
HW_Support_List.txt in the SpectraView Profiler 5 application folder).
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