Monitor color calibrators: hardware-software combos give you consistent color.(Product/Service Evaluation)

Macworld, April, 2005 by Dorgay, Jeff

Calibrating your monitor is the first step in achieving accurate color on your Mac, so the colors you see on your screen are as close as possible to those captured by your scanner or digital camera. A monitor-calibration system--composed of a hardware colorimeter and its accompanying software--takes you beyond the accuracy readings of the built-in Apple ColorSync Utility, which provides strictly eyeball measurements.

While there are some software-only calibration packages, this review includes only hardware-software combinations. Such a calibration package precisely measures the way a monitor's color behaves, optimizes that behavior by tweaking the lookup tables (LUTs) in the video card to produce smooth gradations and neutral grays, and then writes a...