Posted by Lance Warley on December 7, 2011 at 10:19 AM
I have two monitors - a 22" Lenovo Thinkvision that is a few years old, and a brand new 24" Asus ProArt PA246Q (from Puget).
Both are 1920x1200. Both have been calibrated by me with Spyder 3.1.
My images look quite different on them. The images on Lenovo look "right." The images on Asus look darker, with less contrast and less vibrancy.
After Spyder calibration, I changed the Asus "splendid" setting from Standard to Adobe RGB Mode and increased the Brightness from 50 to 100. This helped quite a bit.
Does anyone have similar experiences and suggestions? Thanks.
Asus monitor is on: Puget Genesis, Win 7, 16gb Memory
Lenovo monitor is on: Lenovo X201, Win 7, 8gb memory
Posted by Myer Bornstein on December 7, 2011 at 12:12 PM
I have the same problem but both monitors are the same Dell U2410 and calibrated with spider pro
1. Be sure that the video driver's color managment settings are set to 'Default'.
2. Both monitors should be set to run in 'Native' mode. You don't want the monitor's hardware driver to apply any color management.
3. Both monitors should use the same communication mode, e.g. VGA, DVI, Display Port, etc.
4. Make sure both monitors are well warmed up and stable before calibrating.
5. Both monitors should be calibrated under identical ambient lighting.
6. Ensure that the OS on both machines is using the correct profile, and that the profile is set to 'default'.
I don't know if these steps will help, but it's worth a shot.
Let us know how things work out.
--P
Posted by Lance Warley on December 7, 2011 at 1:22 PM
I will try those suggestions. Thanks, Preston.
Posted by Lance Warley on December 7, 2011 at 4:48 PM
Good news. Based on Preston's suggestion, I opened the Nvidia Control Panel (I have a Nvidia video card; I guess other video cards provide something similar).
The Nvidia first toggle setting is "other applications control color settings." I toggled it to the other choice - "Use Nvidia settings" and voila, everything was fixed. The Nvidia default settings did the trick.
However, a few seconds later, the monitor reverted to the prior settings. That was Spyder applying its calibration profile. When I turned Spyder calibration off, the Nvidia settings stuck.
So now I have an "uncalibrated" monitor that looks perfectly calibrated. Thanks very much, Preston!
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4 repliesBoth are 1920x1200. Both have been calibrated by me with Spyder 3.1.
My images look quite different on them. The images on Lenovo look "right." The images on Asus look darker, with less contrast and less vibrancy.
After Spyder calibration, I changed the Asus "splendid" setting from Standard to Adobe RGB Mode and increased the Brightness from 50 to 100. This helped quite a bit.
Does anyone have similar experiences and suggestions? Thanks.
Asus monitor is on: Puget Genesis, Win 7, 16gb Memory
Lenovo monitor is on: Lenovo X201, Win 7, 8gb memory
1. Be sure that the video driver's color managment settings are set to 'Default'.
2. Both monitors should be set to run in 'Native' mode. You don't want the monitor's hardware driver to apply any color management.
3. Both monitors should use the same communication mode, e.g. VGA, DVI, Display Port, etc.
4. Make sure both monitors are well warmed up and stable before calibrating.
5. Both monitors should be calibrated under identical ambient lighting.
6. Ensure that the OS on both machines is using the correct profile, and that the profile is set to 'default'.
I don't know if these steps will help, but it's worth a shot.
Let us know how things work out.
--P
The Nvidia first toggle setting is "other applications control color settings." I toggled it to the other choice - "Use Nvidia settings" and voila, everything was fixed. The Nvidia default settings did the trick.
However, a few seconds later, the monitor reverted to the prior settings. That was Spyder applying its calibration profile. When I turned Spyder calibration off, the Nvidia settings stuck.
So now I have an "uncalibrated" monitor that looks perfectly calibrated. Thanks very much, Preston!