Today I have try to calibrate my old Imac with Dispcal. Below the results: the average and maximum error at the end are worse than at beginning. Why? Thank you Marco >> Last login: Wed Nov 4 10:50:39 on ttys000 iMac-di-Marco-Noldin:~ Marco$ /Applications/Argyll/Argyll_V1. 0.4/bin/dispcal -v -yl -t 6500 -g2.2 -k0 -qh calibr_Imac_04_11_09 Setting up the instrument Instrument Type: Eye-One Pro Serial Number: 120288 Firmware version: 302 CPLD version: 301 Date manufactured: 12-4- 2005 U.V. filter ?: No Measure Ambient ?: Yes Tot. Measurement Count: 33833 Remission Spot Count: 7330 Remission Scan Count: 358 Date of last Remission spot cal: Thu Sep 17 15:48:50 2009 Remission Spot Count at last cal: 7328 Total lamp usage: 12059.380859 Place cap on the instrument, or place in on a dark surface, or place on the white calibration reference, and then hit any key to continue, or hit Esc, ^C or Q to abort: Calibration complete Place instrument on test window. Hit Esc, ^C or Q to give up, any other key to continue: Display type is LCD Target white = 6500.000000 degrees kelvin Daylight spectrum Target white brightness = native brightness Target black brightness = native brightness Target advertised gamma = 2.200000 Display adjustment menu: Press 1 .. 7 1) Black level (CRT: Offset/Brightness) 2) White point (Color temperature, R,G,B, Gain/Contrast) 3) White level (CRT: Gain/Contrast, LCD: Brightness/Backlight) 4) Black point (R,G,B, Offset/Brightness) 5) Check all 6) Measure and set ambient for viewing condition adjustment 7) Continue on to calibration 8) Exit Doing some initial measurements White = XYZ 144.97 150.28 162.68 Adjust CRT Contrast or LCD Brightness to desired level. Press space when done. Initial 150.28 Sample read failed due to misread Hit Esc, ^C or Q to give up, any other key to retry: / Current 137.28 Sample read failed due to misread Hit Esc, ^C or Q to give up, any other key to retry: / Current 113.95 Sample read failed due to misread Hit Esc, ^C or Q to give up, any other key to retry: \ Current 124.44 Sample read failed due to misread Hit Esc, ^C or Q to give up, any other key to retry: \ Current 124.34 Sample read failed due to misread Hit Esc, ^C or Q to give up, any other key to retry: \ Current 329.39 Sample read failed due to misread Hit Esc, ^C or Q to give up, any other key to retry: / Current 136.45 Sample read failed due to misread Hit Esc, ^C or Q to give up, any other key to retry: \ Current 116.29 ^[ Sample read stopped at user request! Hit Esc, ^C or Q to give up, any other key to retry: The instrument can be removed from the screen. dispcal: Error - display read failed with 'User Aborted' iMac-di-Marco-Noldin:~ Marco$ iMac-di-Marco-Noldin:~ Marco$ /Applications/Argyll/Argyll_V1.0.4 /bin/dispcal -v -yl -t 6500 -g2.2 -k0 -qh calibr_Imac_04_11_09 Setting up the instrument Instrument Type: Eye-One Pro Serial Number: 120288 Firmware version: 302 CPLD version: 301 Date manufactured: 12-4-2005 U. V. filter ?: No Measure Ambient ?: Yes Tot. Measurement Count: 33833 Remission Spot Count: 7330 Remission Scan Count: 358 Date of last Remission spot cal: Thu Sep 17 15:48:50 2009 Remission Spot Count at last cal: 7328 Total lamp usage: 12059.380859 Place cap on the instrument, or place in on a dark surface, or place on the white calibration reference, and then hit any key to continue, or hit Esc, ^C or Q to abort: Calibrate failed with 'User hit Abort Key' (No device error) The instrument can be removed from the screen. dispcal: Error - new_disprd() failed with 'Instrument Access Failed' iMac-di-Marco- Noldin:~ Marco$ /Applications/Argyll/Argyll_V1.0.4/bin/dispcal -v -yl - t 6500 -g2.2 -k0 -N -qh calibr_Imac_04_11_09 Setting up the instrument Instrument Type: Eye-One Pro Serial Number: 120288 Firmware version: 302 CPLD version: 301 Date manufactured: 12-4-2005 U.V. filter ?: No Measure Ambient ?: Yes Tot. Measurement Count: 33833 Remission Spot Count: 7330 Remission Scan Count: 358 Date of last Remission spot cal: Thu Sep 17 15:48:50 2009 Remission Spot Count at last cal: 7328 Total lamp usage: 12059.380859 Place instrument on test window. Hit Esc, ^C or Q to give up, any other key to continue: Display type is LCD Target white = 6500.000000 degrees kelvin Daylight spectrum Target white brightness = native brightness Target black brightness = native brightness Target advertised gamma = 2.200000 Display adjustment menu: Press 1 .. 7 1) Black level (CRT: Offset/Brightness) 2) White point (Color temperature, R,G,B, Gain/Contrast) 3) White level (CRT: Gain/Contrast, LCD: Brightness/Backlight) 4) Black point (R,G,B, Offset/Brightness) 5) Check all 6) Measure and set ambient for viewing condition adjustment 7) Continue on to calibration 8) Exit Press 1 .. 7 1) Black level (CRT: Offset/Brightness) 2) White point (Color temperature, R,G,B, Gain/Contrast) 3) White level (CRT: Gain/Contrast, LCD: Brightness/Backlight) 4) Black point (R,G,B, Offset/Brightness) 5) Check all 6) Measure and set ambient for viewing condition adjustment 7) Continue on to calibration 8) Exit Commencing device calibration patch 6 of 6 Black = XYZ 0.16 0.14 0.21 Red = XYZ 49.79 25.44 1.48 Green = XYZ 36.39 73.36 11.27 Blue = XYZ 19.26 10.25 106.10 White = XYZ 105.04 108.70 118.41 patch 80 of 80 Initial native brightness target = 108.702267 cd/m^2 Had to scale brightness from 108.702267 to 106.973663 to fit within gamut, corresponding to RGB 0.960370 1.000000 0.990181 Target white value is XYZ 101.676149 106.973663 116.429263 Adjusted target black XYZ 0.15 0.13 0.21, Lab 1.06 1.27 -0.93 Target black after min adjust: XYZ 0.15 0.13 0.21, Lab 1.06 1.27 -0.93 Gamma curve input offset = 0.060350, output offset = 0.000000, power = 2.403165 Total Iteration 4, Final Samples = 96 Final Repeat threshold = 0.400000 Creating initial calibration curves... Doing iteration 1 with 12 sample points and repeat threshold of 1.131371 DE patch 12 of 12 Brightness error = -2.011951 cd/m^2 White point error = 1.140853 deltaE Maximum neutral error (@ 1.000000) = 1.349361 deltaE Average neutral error = 0.822225 deltaE Failed to meet target 1.131371 delta E, got worst case 1.349361 Number of measurements taken = 50 Computing update to calibration curves... Doing iteration 2 with 24 sample points and repeat threshold of 0.800000 DE patch 24 of 24 Brightness error = -1.976754 cd/m^2 White point error = 1.236497 deltaE Maximum neutral error (@ 0.000000) = 1.998608 deltaE Average neutral error = 0.622495 deltaE Failed to meet target 0.800000 delta E, got worst case 1.998608 Number of measurements taken = 96 Computing update to calibration curves... Doing iteration 3 with 48 sample points and repeat threshold of 0.565685 DE patch 48 of 48 Brightness error = -2.521551 cd/m^2 White point error = 1.103906 deltaE Maximum neutral error (@ 0.000000) = 3.853965 deltaE Average neutral error = 0.762469 deltaE Failed to meet target 0.565685 delta E, got worst case 3.853965 Number of measurements taken = 239 Computing update to calibration curves... Doing iteration 4 with 96 sample points and repeat threshold of 0.400000 DE patch 33 of 96 Sample read failed due to misread Hit Esc, ^C or Q to give up, any other key to retry: patch 96 of 96 Brightness error = -2.458040 cd/m^2 White point error = 1.523172 deltaE Maximum neutral error (@ 0.000000) = 6.771865 deltaE Average neutral error = 1.401901 deltaE Failed to meet target 0.400000 delta E, got worst case 4.855975 Number of measurements taken = 783 The instrument can be removed from the screen. 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