Advice for getting the most accurate calibration?

[Taylor Huston]

I just picked up an Asus PA279CRV. This is advertised as a 99% AdobeRGB monitor. The best I can seem to get with DisplayCal and a Spyder X colorimeter is just over 94%. As a casual photographer who’s just recently getting into printing his own work, that’s still probably more than good enough, but is there anything I can do to squeak a few more points of accuracy out of it?

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[Kuba Trybowski]

Spyders are highly inaccurate.

Buy an instrument from the i1 Display Pro family:

• X-Rite i1 Display Pro or Pro Plus;
• Calibrite ColorChecker Display Pro or Pro Plus;
• Calibrite Display Pro HL or Plus HL;

[Vincent]

I just picked up an Asus PA279CRV. This is advertised as a 99% AdobeRGB monitor. The best I can seem to get with DisplayCal and a Spyder X colorimeter is just over 94%. As a casual photographer who’s just recently getting into printing his own work, that’s still probably more than good enough, but is there anything I can do to squeak a few more points of accuracy out of it?

coverage =/= accuracy

You main concern should be:
-accurate print profiles your ypur paper-ink-pinter combination
-appraise you printed copy under good lighting with broad spectral power distribution
-match monitor brightess and white color visually to that enviroment

since whitepoint with an spyder and and unknow technology (if asus you can guess that it is AdobeRGB-green QLED), if you aim for D65 as general purpose calibration setting for User 1, just make sure white looks white and if not buy a better device or use a visual match approach.
Also check that grey coloration in grey scale does not oscillate too much in a*b* axes.
A good behaved display could be profiled with a matrix curve profile.

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