[argyllcms] Re: [argyllcms] How wide is the colour gamut covered by dispread?

Dispcal don't cover any gamuts, it cover device space in some degree. It's just 
a calibrator, but with preliminary profiling feature. The gamut wideness depend 
of display characteristics only, not of dispcal.

-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen T <stwebvanuatu@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: argyllcms@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 06:49:10 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [argyllcms] How wide is the colour gamut covered by dispread?

> I found out why my laptop does not profile well: it has a white LED backlight 
> and inadequate spectrum.
> 
> At least I can calibrate it OK and there's no more blue colour cast. Colour 
> temperature is good, tones are satisfactory, everyday colours (mixtures) are 
> reasonably OK but pure colours are off, red looks orangeish. The colour 
> spectrum of the white LED backlight in my display can't make pure red and the 
> gamut of this display is surely less than sRGB. BEWARE! My old Dell with CCFL 
> backlight has better colours!
> 
> Anyway, I notice that Argyll uses very many color patches. Can dispread 
> profile wide gamut displays, like an LCD with RGB LEDs? How wide is the gamut 
> covered by dispread? NTSC? AdobeRGB? How does dispread handle reduced gamut 
> displays that can't generate pure R, G, B as per sRGB gamut? On my "crap" 
> display it seems to oversaturate, trying to make colours that are impossible.
> 
> I think I'm finally learning how to use Argyll, it's a great tool.
> 
> Cheers, Stephen.
> 
> 
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