Re: filmscanners: This Gamma Thing...?

["Alan Tyson" <AlanTyson@bknowl.freeserve.co.uk>]

Tom,

A while back, I went through all the monitor calibration
stuff on several different sites and found it very easy to
make things much worse.

Then I found that the best match between my Taxan Ergovision
735TCO99 monitor and HP710C printer (using Vuescan and
PaintShopPro7 or Photoshop 5LE, mostly) was achieved by
leaving everything exactly as it was, with the factory
defaults, except for a slight adjustment to the
black point of the monitor.

So this may be something to try at an early stage! Try
printing a colour chart or two and grey scale, and see if
anything much is wrong.

Alan T

----- Original Message -----
From: IronWorks <ironworks@ameritech.net>
To: <filmscanners@halftone.co.uk>
Sent: Saturday, February 03, 2001 7:56 AM
Subject: Re: filmscanners: This Gamma Thing...?


> In line with shAF's white and black point setting
suggestion, there is an
> excellent site at http://www.aim-dtp.net/aim/index.htm,
very professional
> but understandable and lots of how-to-do-its.
>
> There is a monitor calibration section there, and a good
walk-through of the
> white and black point settings at
>
http://www.aim-dtp.net/aim/calibration/blackpoint/crt_bright
ness_and_contras
> t.htm
>
> Maris
>
etc., etc