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sgwrx

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what does a factory pre-calibration mean to me?
« on: August 03, 2015, 11:00:50 pm »

i've never really understood what it meant to have a monitor that was factory calibrated (or pre-calibrated).  is it just a "starting point" for general purpose?  or is it just pretty much a marketing thing where the company says "we calibrated at the factory and our dE was x which is pretty good... but, we recommend you calibrate and profile due to variations in video cards etc..."

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Re: what does a factory pre-calibration mean to me?
« Reply #1 on: August 03, 2015, 11:26:57 pm »

or is it just pretty much a marketing thing where the company says "we calibrated at the factory and our dE was x which is pretty good... but, we recommend you calibrate and profile due to variations in video cards etc..."


Factory calibration is meaningless, you need to calibrate YOUR profile and not rely on an arbitrary canned profile.
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Re: Re: what does a factory pre-calibration mean to me?
« Reply #2 on: August 04, 2015, 09:21:10 am »

Factory calibration is meaningless, you need to calibrate YOUR profile and not rely on an arbitrary canned profile.
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Re: what does a factory pre-calibration mean to me?
« Reply #3 on: August 04, 2015, 09:46:27 am »

i've never really understood what it meant to have a monitor that was factory calibrated (or pre-calibrated).  is it just a "starting point" for general purpose? 
As Jeff states, it's meaningless. Well 99% of the time. I guess one could say an NEC SpectraView when set to emulate sRGB can do so without an instrument using MutiProfiler. But that's a rare bird.
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« Reply #4 on: August 04, 2015, 09:53:33 am »

it would be the equivalent of me calibrating and profiling my monitor and then telling you what settings im using on the monitor and sending you the profile?  assuming we had the same monitors.

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