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I’ve used DisplayCAL 3.2.3 to calibrate two 24″ monitors on my Windows 10 machine, but the display of the same material on both shows very obvious differences in colour profile. I am not that experienced at colour calibration, but the process seemed to work okay and the created profiles appear to be being applied correctly – at least by DisplayCAL and the Windows Color Calibration feature.
I used a Spyder 5 sensor to do the calibration (with the Argyll CMS driver). Is there something I’m missing? The main point of the exercise was to get the two monitors to display similar colours.
Thanks in advance for any assistance.
William
PS – Attached is a photo of the two screens. The one on the left is an NEC EA241WM and the one on the right a Viewsonic VG2438. The blue on the Viewsonic is much darker, although its less obvious in the photo.
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Attached is a photo of the two screens. The one on the left is an NEC EA241WM and the one on the right a Viewsonic VG2438. The blue on the Viewsonic is much darker, although its less obvious in the photo.
Only color managed applications will show similar colors (within ability of the display) under Windows. PowerPoint is not color managed at all.
Hi Florian. I tried the same thing using a screenshot and displaying it in Photoshop, which I assumed was colour-managed? The result was the same.
The lesser of the two displays (NEC EA241WM) has a TN panel and thus high dependence on viewing angle. I suspect it will not be able to show a flat single color area without it looking like a gradient, which is a problem TN-based displays generally have. This is a hardware limitation.
The ViewSonic on the other hand has a PLS panel and should not be affected by this problem.
