User manual LACIE BLUE EYE PRO

[. . . ] LaCie blue eye pro User Manual Table of Contents page Table of Contents 1. Calibrating your LaCie 300/500 Series Monitor 5. 2. 1 Setting Calibration Values for your LaCie 300/500 Series Monitor 5. 2. 2. White Point Adjustment 5 5 6 6 7 8 8 10 13 13 14 15 16 16 17 17 18 19 19 22 22 22 23 23 24 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 31 32 33 33 LaCie blue eye pro User Manual Table of Contents page 6. 2. 5. Warranty Information 34 34 36 36 36 37 38 40 41 42 LaCie blue eye pro User Manual Forward page Copyrights Copyright © 2007 LaCie. [. . . ] Though both profiles types rely on different calculation techniques, they generally don't provide significantly different results on Series 300/500 monitors. We therefore recommend the use of LUT or Matrix depending on your workflow and the software used. 5. 4. 4. Profile Version By default, profiles created with Blue eye pro are ICC 2 profiles. If required you can choose version 4 profiles by marking the ICC 4 button. Though ICC2 profiles have been widely used and proved their reliability, improvements needed to be added in ICC4 profiles to increase predictability and performance and to reduce eventual differences of interpretation. ICC4 profiles provide: A more precise definition of rendering intents to reduce ambiguities. Both profiles versions will provide excellent results in your workflow. Though ICC4 profiles are newer and integrate several improvements, they might not be supported by every CMM. . We therefore recommend the use of ICC4 or ICC2 profiles depending on your workflow and the software used. LaCie blue eye pro User Manual Calibrating 300/500 Series Monitors with blue eye pro page 5. 4. 5. OSD lock Use this option to prevent accidental changes in your monitor's settings that may invalidate your calibration. Mark the locked button to lock the on-screen -display (OSD), Mark the Unlocked button to allow changes. Once your advanced options are modified, you can: go back to the main menu by clicking on the Main menu button go to the Settings window by clicking on Settings Click the Calibration button in order to calibrate your monitor. 5. 5. Switching Colorimetric Environments From the Main Menu window, the Select Profile button offers the possibility of easily switching from one colorimetric environment to another, for instance from D65 to D50, without re-calibrating the monitor or even manipulating the colorimeter. To take advantage of this possibility, two profiles corresponding to both of these environments must have already been created through the standard calibration process described in section 5. 2. When you click on the Select Profile button, the window to the right (Fig. To switch from your current colorimetric environment to another, select a new profile from the pulldown menu. The new monitor profile is activated and its associated settings are loaded in the monitor. Figure 5. 5. A. LaCie blue eye pro User Manual Calibrating 300/500 Series Monitors with blue eye pro page 5. 6. Using a Reference Profile for Easy Setup or Monitor Matching The Reference Profile Setting allows you to calibrate your monitor to closely match another monitor. This allows you to ensure colors are closely matched between two monitors connected to the same computer or on two different computers. All related calibration settings, including advanced settings, such as specific Black Point or Chromatic adaptation, are memorized, included in the calibration without the need for further setup, and locked, thus preventing any accidental change. This feature can also be used as an easy and safe way to setup your calibration even if you only have a single monitor. Instead of specifying all settings, which may be complicated and unsafe, a single file is used as a reference profile to define the "standard". [. . . ] Why don't all of the saved ICC profiles appear in the dropdown menu of the Select Profile module? LaCie blue eye pro User Manual Troubleshooting page Problem Issues regarding the Select Profile Module. Various Issues Question Can the Select Profile module be used without the colorimeter connected?Does the monitor need to be recalibrated if the OSD settings were altered?Can the LaCie 300/500 Series Monitor be calibrated while connected through an ADC port? Solution Yes, a saved profile can be loaded without having the colorimeter connected. [. . . ]