[argyllcms] Re: DELL Laptop RGBLED calibration

Marcello Desantis wrote:
> The environment:
> Dell M6400 with RGBLED WUXGA 16.7M colors display (wide gamut?)
> Ubuntu 9.04
>
> The problem:
> Oversaturated and wrong colors

Oversaturated is indeed an indication for wide gamut.

> The target:
> obtaining more natural colors with all my desktop apps (not only with profile 
> aware apps). I'm a software developer and I need to see the same colors my 
> customers are going to see.
>
> I'm wondering if I can obtain this calibrating the monitor with a colorimeter 
> and Argyll.

Yes and no.

Yes, Argyll can calibrate and profile displays.

But no, the calibration will only fix the gray axis, but you won't get
correct colors with _all_ your (arbitrary) desktop applications, but
this will only apply to color-managed applications which explicitly can
deal with display profiles.

What you possibly want is a monitor which can emulate particular color
spaces (e.g. sRGB) direcly in the monitor hardware. I'd be really
surprised if this notebook display would have this capability, since
this kind of functionality is rather only supported by some monitors
playing in a higher league. The drawback of using such an emulation mode
is on the other hand, that one has to abandon the wide gamut (i.e the
gamut will be limited to the gamut of the emulated color space).

Regards,
Gerhard

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