Chuck,
So far, so good. Seems to be stable after degaussing and I can calibrate it
using the Monitors & Sound Control Panel, and ColorSync, on MacOS 8.6
PS v.4 recognizes the tube as a Hitachi-Ikegami after entering the phosphor
CIE coordinates for RGB. A new PS white background file reads 255 for R, G,
and B - and 0% for CMYK. Grey looks grey and white looks white as before.
SMPTE color bars look good.
Nevertheless, I don't think this is enough to tell if it's calibrated or not
since all these are internal measures and don't provide feedback to the OS
regarding how does the screen look like.
So, how does one know when a monitor is calibrated ?
TIA,
Fernando
- going to the basics....
on 25/05/2006 21:53, Chuck Norcutt at chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxx, wrote:
> The CRT will keep operating well beyond 6 years but you may not be able
> to properly calibrate it for color balance after 6 years.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
> Fernando Gonzalez Gentile wrote:
>
>> on 24/05/2006 18:22, Chuck Norcutt at chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxx, wrote:
>>
>>
>>> CRT's have a useful life of about 6 years
>>
>> I'm touching wood right now, since my 9 years old Apple 15AV started
>> misbehaving since three weeks ago. No red when awakened from Sleep mode,
>> then too red, then finally settled to its normal grey or white calibration
>> background colours.
>> Reading its manual, found that there was a built-in degaussing procedure.
>> Tried it twice, and it's behaving ok until this very moment. Who knows what
>> will happen tomorrow morning.....
>>
>> Fernando
>> - not a LCD fan.
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