
REASON: The Adobe RGB and sRGB preset modes are Dell factory calibrated at a Luminance of about 200 cd/m2! Photo editing applications require a luminance between 100 and 140 cd/m2 for print matching. Just use color managed apps and you're fine.Īgreed! After reading the epic novel at the Whirpool link on the Dell u2711 the best solution is to calibrate each preset mode and create separate monitor profiles for each one. You really do not want to be swapping display settings and monitor profiles all the time as it is extraordinarily likely you will do it wrong or that the system will ignore what you ask it (very common!) and you end up with overcorrected images. If you use it in normal mode (2) untagged images, which constitute the majority of the internet, will look oversaturated, exactly like in IE (i.e. For your browser you should dump IE (which you should anyway) and just use Firefox in the gfx.color_management.mode 1 setting mode where it color manages everything except flash content. Their calibration procedures are nowhere near as good as just using your own calibrator. Even if you set it to a aRGB or sRGB mode (which is generally not something you want to do as it limits your gamut), you should recalibrate. Calibrate the display in standard or custom using the hardware calibrator and then don't touch any settings on the display anymore except when you recalibrate. Noooo! You do not want to do that especially if you own a calibrator. I think that I am reading that I don’t have to do a separate calibration to the “custom” preset and just rely on using the Adobe 1998 profile using the “Adobe RGB” preset.
