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I am a casual PC user, who is nevertheless interested in having more or less accurate colors on his monitors. I have an 8 year old colormunki display and about the same age Dell U2410 monitor that I have calibrated multiple times by now. I would usually settle on the X-Rite software for Colormunki Display: I used to like the result and it is reasonably fast and hassle free too. Until recently. I haven’t calibrated my monitor for a while, but a few days back I upgraded the MB and CPU and RAM so I decided to have a fresh install of Windows 10 and a fresh display profile. To my surprise, unlike always, I did not like the calibration results from the very first glance. I repeated the calibration a couple times more just to be sure but I still did not like it: the colors were cold-ish and purple-ish, not dramatically so, but noticable to my eyes. I then downloaded an old version of the X-Rite software just to make sure they did not screw something up in the newer one, but it produced the same purple-ish result. So I figured: my Colormunki must have surpassed it’s life expectancy and I need to get myself a new one. But before doing so I decided to give DisplayCal a chance. And what do you think? A very good result from the first attempt! There’s no way for me to validate it but the best validation for me personally is that each day turning my computer on I am satisfied with the perceived colors’ neutrality to the extent that I don’t want to tweak anything. Good job, DisplayCal!
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If you want to verify your calibration result, you can do so on the “Verification” tab (just use the defaults there).
Well, I am thinking if my calibrator is skewed, I can’t really trust it to do the verification. So I either need a trusted calibrator that I don’t have for the job or trust my own observations over a period of time, which, considering I am not doing any professional work involving color processing, is good enough for me.
