How to Calibrate your monitor?

faithy · 22-12-2008 12:15PM #1

Hi

Im having some issues with prints coming out different then on screen. Im using a dell xps m1530 NVidia. Does anyone know how you can calibrate a laptop screen. Help would be appreciated. Its quite confussing so im gonna do one step at a time and then try figure out how to calibrate my printer.

Thanks

Paulw · 22-12-2008 12:19PM

You should really look for a calibration utility, such as a Spyder3.

There should be other threads (try a search) which give other devices and options for calibration, but the Spyder 3 is probably one of the best.

CabanSail · 22-12-2008 12:20PM

I use a Spyder, but there are other products that do a similar job.

Borderfox · 22-12-2008 12:46PM

Have a look here

http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=321608

Dakar32 · 22-12-2008 09:09PM

I got a spyder3 but still found that the photo on screen was way brighter then the prints, I tried turning the brightness way down but when I ran the calibration again it made it brighter!
I think I must be missing some secret step as the advice I found generally says to run the spyder.
I have a Dell laptop also, I gave up on its screen and got an external monitor, the images look must better on that but still too bright compared to the prints

Paulw · 22-12-2008 09:23PM

I noticed that my prints (from photobox) were very dark. But, that seemed specific to just photobox. Not sure if that relates to your problem too?

challengemaster · 22-12-2008 09:33PM

Photobox do print dark, thats why I've stopped using them.

Dakar32 · 22-12-2008 10:49PM

Yea the prints were from photobox, I thought it was them to begin with so I went to the Kodak things in boots and it was roughly the same so I then thought it was my setup

quilmore · 23-12-2008 12:58AM

challengemaster wrote: »

Photobox do print dark, thats why I've stopped using them.

same here

and a +1 to spyder, been using it for some time, on CRT's and now on decent LCD, can't beat it

for printing calibration you need a screen+print calibration, they are at over 400 euros but the way to go if you want to have something in paper similar to what you see on screen
don't expect a screen only calibration to give you perfect prints

How to Calibrate your monitor?

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