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Originally Posted by jase
Next purchase is a monitor calibration tool Leon. This will ensure your colour space is consistent assuming you may want to print some of your images in the future.
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Actually I think that this is pointless exercise for most people Jase - unless their monitor is sitting in a light booth with controlled 5k deg lighting, and you are using ICC profiles that control your monitors output to match the intended press footprint. Unless Leon intends to get into professionally supplying images to publishers then it'd be difficult to justify the bother. Unless you understand the whole process (including the reasons that we have ICC profiling) then it's too hard to do properly anyway.
The whole point of calibrating a monitor is for the operator to get an idea of what they are currently working on is going to look like on the actual printed page off a certain type of press (which is also calibrated to the type of inks and paper stock in use). Unless you have specific targets there's no point in calibration - especially if you aren't viewing the monitor under controlled conditions. This can all be done later on at pre-press stage if required anyway, and usually is by the publisher to suit their own mechanical specification.
This is what our company does for a living, and even we don't maintain this level of calibration for those monitors outside of a light booth. If you are producing images for web use, then it's a moot point in any case, as everyone's monitor is different.