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If you don’t care about all the pretext and want to dive right into the installation guide, scroll down to Step 1: Installation of all components needed for Displa圜AL. Take a cup of coffee, take a comfortable seat and get ready for a lengthy article on screen calibration. I will shed some light on why to calibrate your screen with displa圜AL and a Spyder 5. (was adviced to move this posting here instead of 'Equipment')Īs the task of having your monitors displaying as optimal as possible is that important I would like to ask the forum around preparing your monitors for calibration with the Spyder 5 Express equipment.After making a video on the topic, I thought it might also be helpful to have all of it in written form because this is a long and complex topic.

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I might add I know the full process performing a calibration. #Displaycal spyder5 express observer full

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The 'big' one is a HP ZR30w and the 'slave' a Samsung SMB 2340.Īs the latest Win10 upgrade this weekend seem to have reset monitor management I have to redo the Spyder calibration from scratch and I'm a bit concerned about the basic settings before activiating a calibration.

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I use a nVidia graphics card and the software nVidia Control Panel to monitor settings (as well as organizing monitors). The Spyder instructions start with the preparation of the monitors. I have some problems to adapt suggestions made to possible settings for my monitors.įirst advice is to reset the monitors to factory settings IF there's an OSD Menu. Second is to set the temperature to 6500K. The set-up I did first time I used the Spyder was in those cases a bit of my best guesses. As I now have to do it again from scratch I would like to be more certain. To rely on the calibration I have to be sure it's done from the recommended settings. But as terminilogy, accessable settings etc. Those details concerns me as the instructions differ from what I'm able to do: differs from the instructions I rather would like to check with anyone knowing more about those than me. The older (and cheaper) Samsung slave monitor has an OSD Menu and I found the Reset option in the OSD menu. So no problem with the reset instuction for that one. The HP screen don't have an OSD Menu BUT an option to turn DCR (Dynamic Contrast Ratio) On or Off. The instruction just say I can skip the reset step if no OSD. My guess is that OFF is the right choice, and will display the most true colours and temperatures? Still there is a choice of turning the DCR On or Off. The nVidia Control Panel has a general option (have to do a translation from swedish in the interface) of controling colours of the individual monitors connected from 'Select options of colour settings'. You can choose 'Other software controls colour settings' or 'Use nVidia settings'. My guess was to select 'Other software.' as I interpreted the Spyder Software as 'other'. Is there any? If not - does it matter much? I can't find any controler available to set the temperatur to 6500K. Most thankful for all useful input on this. The repond from Datacolor support wasn't useful at at all. BTW, what is it with customer supports these days? You ask specific questions and get answers indicating that they didn't read your message and answer something else? On the contrary the message did NOT answer my actual question (somewhat like the quest above). The answer I got was in short that 'if I've lost my profile after booting'. To start with I didn't adress that as my problem at all. Anyway, the tip was that I had to un-install my nVidia Control Panel (a lot of config issues around that) as load of graphics replaces the Spyder profiles. Not a tip I jumped to as nVidia Control Panel is a very good and reliable tool to me, handling two screens and a HDMI-connected TV.

In addition I knew that this setup worked very well, until the Win10 upgrade last weekend. The main part of their mail did instead push for the much more expensive software ELITE. #Displaycal spyder5 express observer software

So the advice was to un-install an instance that didn't affect the problem as I descibed it, and that I should buy a more expensive product of theirs. I answered that I hestitate to do that as my conclusion was that something else was the problem, like the OS upgrade that really made a change. #Displaycal spyder5 express observer upgrade My first quest was answered in a few hours, my respond wasnät answered at all in two days.

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