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Embarrassing confession time, I’ve been meaning to calibrate my screens ever since I upgraded to Mac OSX Lion, finally got around to it—and not surprisingly the process wasn’t as smooth as it normally is.
If you’re new to screen calibration, or are wondering why one would want to calibrate their screens in the first place(!) we should go over the basics. Jeremy Daalder is our go to guy for anything to do with producing color-correct outcomes and he has some excellent free articles to learn all about this black art.
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In a nutshell, we calibrate our screens/monitors to ensure that the device is able to display images using the most accurate colours, brightness, and contrast. The device (it could be a screen or a printer) is calibrated against some absolute benchmark for that device’s behaviour—typically using some additional piece of equipment. Have a read of Jeremy’s exhaustive article on calibration and profiling to understand this inside out.
So, in my case I was using a Gretag MacBeth EyeOne Display2 calibration device, to calibrate my MacBook Pro & Cinema Display running Mac OSX Lion.
To make life interesting, a number of things had happened since I last looked under this rock.
- A while back Gretag Macbeth was acquired by Xrite.
- The EyeOne Display2 has been superseded by the i1 Display Pro
- The latest Mac OSX release no longer supports the driver software that came with the original EyeOne device
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This was a classic face-palm realisation for me. Not helped by alarmed users writing articles like this one, basically declaring that the old device was now an unusable relic!! Grr-aargh! :-O
However, a solution exists!!
Fortunately, the good folks at Xrite have been quick to respond to the plight of users in the same predicament as myself, and have released a software update.
Download it for FREE from the Xrite website.
Fortunately, the good folks at Xrite have been quick to respond to the plight of users in the same predicament as myself, and have released a software update.
Download it for FREE from the Xrite website.
But the trickiness does not end with the download. I had to calibrate 3 different setups:
- 27″ iMac: Install successful, no problem! ?
- Mac-mini Connected to a 55″ LED display: Install successful, no problem! ?
- Thunderbolt Cinema Display and a MacBook Pro: Major bummer! ?
Trying to calibrate the MacBook with the Cinema display connected was a non-starter—the software could not detect the EyeOne device. After much trial and error and USB port swapping we finally figured out the correct sequence of events:
- Connect the EyeOne device to the Macbook and calibrate Macbook by itself first
- Close the calibration software and disconnect the EyeOne device
- Restart
- Connect Cinema Display to Macbook
- Connect EyeOne device to the Cinema Display
- Initiate calibration process
Things went smoothly from there. Happy Days.
[box_light]To summarise, the steps I followed were:- download free, software update from the Xrite website
- Special Steps for multiple screen setups:
- Connect the EyeOne device to the Macbook and calibrate Macbook by itself first
- Close the calibration software and disconnect the EyeOne device
- Restart
- Connect Cinema Display to Macbook
- Connect EyeOne device to the Cinema Display
- Initiate calibration process
- Done!
There you have it, problem solved.
Here’s a vintage video of the original EyeOne Display2 in action.
Here’s a vintage video of the original EyeOne Display2 in action.
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Calibrate and characterize your display devices using one of many supported measurement instruments, with support for multi-display setups and a variety of available options for advanced users, such as verification and reporting functionality to evaluate ICC profiles and display devices, creating video 3D LUTs, as well as optional CIECAM02 gamut mapping to take into account varying viewing conditions.
At its core it relies on ArgyllCMS, an advanced open source color management system, to take measurements, create calibrations and profiles, and for a variety of other advanced color related tasks.
Other features include:
- Support of colorimeter corrections for different display device types to increase the absolute accuracy of colorimeters. Corrections can be imported from vendor software or created from measurements if a spectrometer is available.
- Check display device uniformity via measurements.
- Test chart editor: Create charts with any amount and composition of color patches, easy copy & paste from CGATS, CSV files (only tab-delimited) and spreadsheet applications, for profile verification and evaluation.
- Create synthetic ICC profiles with custom primaries, white- and blackpoint as well as tone response for use as working spaces or source profiles in device linking (3D LUT) transforms.
DisplayCAL is developed and maintained by Florian Höch, and would not be possible without ArgyllCMS, which is developed and maintained by Graeme W. Gill.
System requirements and other prerequisites
General system requirements
- A recent Linux, macOS (10.6 or newer, recommended 10.7 or newer) or Windows (recommended Windows 7 or newer) operating system.
- “True color” 24 bits per pixel or higher graphics output.
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Hardware requirements
- Minimum: 1 GHz single core processor, 1.5 GB RAM, 500 MB free storage space.
- Recommended: 2 GHz dual core processor or better, 4 GB RAM or more, 1 GB free storage space or more.
ArgyllCMS
- To use DisplayCAL, you need to download and install ArgyllCMS (1.0 or newer).
Supported instruments
You need one of the supported instruments to make measurements. All instruments supported by ArgyllCMS are also supported by DisplayCAL. For display readings, these currently are:
Colorimeters
- CalMAN X2 (treated as i1 Display 2)
- Datacolor/ColorVision Spyder2
- Datacolor Spyder3 (since ArgyllCMS 1.1.0)
- Datacolor Spyder4 (since ArgyllCMS 1.3.6)
- Datacolor Spyder5 (since ArgyllCMS 1.7.0)
- Datacolor SpyderX (since ArgyllCMS 2.1.0)
- Hughski ColorHug (Linux support since ArgyllCMS 1.3.6, Windows support with newest ColorHug firmware since ArgyllCMS 1.5.0, fully functional Mac OS X support since ArgyllCMS 1.6.2)
- Hughski ColorHug2 (since ArgyllCMS 1.7.0)
- Image Engineering EX1 (since ArgyllCMS 1.8.0)
- Klein K10-A (since ArgyllCMS 1.7.0. The K-1, K-8 and K-10 are also reported to work)
- Lacie Blue Eye (treated as i1 Display 2)
- Sencore ColorPro III, IV & V (treated as i1 Display 1)
- Sequel Imaging MonacoOPTIX/Chroma 4 (treated as i1 Display 1)
- X-Rite Chroma 5 (treated as i1 Display 1)
- X-Rite ColorMunki Create (treated as i1 Display 2)
- X-Rite ColorMunki Smile (since ArgyllCMS 1.5.0)
- X-Rite DTP92
- X-Rite DTP94
- X-Rite/GretagMacbeth/Pantone Huey
- X-Rite/GretagMacbeth i1 Display 1
- X-Rite/GretagMacbeth i1 Display 2/LT (the HP DreamColor/Advanced Profiling Solution versions of the instrument are also reported to work)
- X-Rite i1 Display Pro, ColorMunki Display (since ArgyllCMS 1.3.4. The HP DreamColor, NEC SpectraSensor Pro and SpectraCal C6 versions of the instrument are also reported to work)
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Spectrometers
- JETI specbos 1211/1201 (since ArgyllCMS 1.6.0)
- JETI spectraval 1511/1501 (since ArgyllCMS 1.9.0)
- X-Rite ColorMunki Design/Photo (since ArgyllCMS 1.1.0)
- X-Rite/GretagMacbeth i1 Monitor (since ArgyllCMS 1.0.3)
- X-Rite/GretagMacbeth i1 Pro (the EFI ES-1000 version of the instrument is also reported to work)
- X-Rite i1 Pro 2 (since ArgyllCMS 1.5.0)
- X-Rite/GretagMacbeth Spectrolino
- X-Rite i1Studio (since ArgyllCMS 2.0)