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<blockquote data-quote="Fred Kingston_RIP" data-source="post: 755151" data-attributes="member: 10742">I calibrate my monitor (monthly) and it matches with a bit of tweaking what I print on my Canon Pixma Pro-100... I have been calibrating my monitor(s) for years. Calibration takes into consideration the ambient lighting you view your monitor under. The lighting in MY office is different than the lighting in YOUR's... I see the term &quot;calibrated monitors&quot; used by the monitor marketing folks and don't understand how that is without consideration to the adjustments that a monitor can support.&nbsp; I suspect their definition of &quot;calibrated&quot; is different than mine... Over time, due to various burn-in characteristics of electronics, a monitor's calibration can change slightly... You need to re-calibrate and adjust for that... Monitor calibration entails establishing baselines for a specific monitor, then adjusting those (brightness/contrast) adjustments before calibrating for COLOR corrections... There are baseline standards for those that calibration software measures, and printer manufacturers use to align their products.Turning up your brightness beyond specific lumen levels and then producing a file to match what your printer produces is hopeless... without a device to measure those levels, I doubt that an inexperienced eye can adjust those without a great deal of trial and error and a ton of printing.&nbsp;&nbsp; IOW, it's much more expedient to purchase calibration software/device and calibrate the monitor.X-Rite and DataColor are two companies that cater to and sell monitor calibration software and tools.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Fred Kingston_RIP, post: 755151, member: 10742"] I calibrate my monitor (monthly) and it matches with a bit of tweaking what I print on my Canon Pixma Pro-100... I have been calibrating my monitor(s) for years. Calibration takes into consideration the ambient lighting you view your monitor under. The lighting in MY office is different than the lighting in YOUR's... I see the term "calibrated monitors" used by the monitor marketing folks and don't understand how that is without consideration to the adjustments that a monitor can support. I suspect their definition of "calibrated" is different than mine... Over time, due to various burn-in characteristics of electronics, a monitor's calibration can change slightly... You need to re-calibrate and adjust for that... Monitor calibration entails establishing baselines for a specific monitor, then adjusting those (brightness/contrast) adjustments before calibrating for COLOR corrections... There are baseline standards for those that calibration software measures, and printer manufacturers use to align their products. Turning up your brightness beyond specific lumen levels and then producing a file to match what your printer produces is hopeless... without a device to measure those levels, I doubt that an inexperienced eye can adjust those without a great deal of trial and error and a ton of printing. IOW, it's much more expedient to purchase calibration software/device and calibrate the monitor. X-Rite and DataColor are two companies that cater to and sell monitor calibration software and tools. [/QUOTE]

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