Thanks Iliah. My problem was that in my mind -4.6504e-003 was not –0.0046 but -4.6 and so on (I am not confident with the “e”). Can you please tell me if the XYZ values can also be negative? For what I understood they should start from 0: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIE_1931_color_space. What am I missing? Vittorio From: ib@xxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [argyllcms] Re: ccmxmake: some questions. Date: Wed, 4 May 2011 13:50:12 -0400 To: argyllcms@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Dear Vittorio, XYZ_X XYZ_Y XYZ_Z 0.98177 -6.8614e-003 0.021942 -4.6504e-003 0.98371 1.4480e-003 -0.014964 0.028424 1.0431 Can I interpret this like “your custom NEC colorimeter is not working good on your NEC monitor” because of the XYZ values? Why? Main diagonal is very close to all "1"; off-center coefficients are extremely small. The NEC instrument shows near perfect match to the monitor, within i1Pro precision. --Iliah Borgib@xxxxxxxxxxx