Perfect (screen) colour accuracy?

http://uk.gear.ign.com/articles/731/731108p1.html

Until I read that, I never heard of a 'colorimeter'... *quickly rushed to Oxford English Dictionary*

Reckon it'd work on notebook LCDs, if a little expensive?

P.S. Right forum section?

 

Of course it will work with LCD screens, the guys at Tom's Hardware regularly use a colorimeter when testing various LCD displays.

$89 USD is pretty cheap for one of these as well, other meters can run up to several thousand dollars. For high end photo and print work, a properly calibrated monitor is a must.

 

These cheap sub $200 colorimeters and spectrophotometers have been shown time and time again to hardly have any affect, and in some cases hurt your color accuracy. That includes the Huey, which is actually a very lowend Gretag MacBeth part. Look to the Gretag MacBeth Eye-One 2 and the Monaco Optix XR Pro for entry level parts that are worth a ****.

But if you don't have a decent screen don't even bother. If you have a TN tech LCD panel then it's a waste of time and money, *VA and IPS are much more capable of color accuracy. Especially the likes of Eizos with the bigger lookup tables.

The Eye-One, if purchased with the proper software, and a suite from Monaco which includes the Optix and a seperate spectrophotometer, are also able to profile printers. Some of the suite versions can also profile scanners and digital cameras. But monitors, printers, scanners, and digital cameras all have one thing in common. Their colors shift over time, and for truely accurate color you should be profiling at least once a month. Some folks who work in truely high end stuff with $50,000+ inkjets and $5000 monitors will profile their gear before every job.