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On 2015.03.06 00:16 , Your Name wrote:
> In article <060320151339380888%YourName@YourISP.com>, Your Name
> <YourName@YourISP.com> wrote:
>> In article
>> <0001HW.D11DF24C05C05970B01029BF@news.eternal-september.org>, DaveC
>> <invalid@invalid.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for the response, DaveC. I read the guide you reference a long
>>>> time ago and never had good luck calibrating printers or generating the
>>>> relevant color profiles, but I'll give it another go.
>>>
>>> One part of the calibration process is of course calibrating the monitor.
>>> This requires a piece of additional hardware, a small camera, or "eye". You
>>> stick it to the face of the display and it reads the colors put up on the
>>> display by the calibration software.
>>>
>>> One process:
>>>
>>> http://www.pantone.com/pages/pantone/category.aspx?ca=2
>>>
>>> There are others.
>>>
>>> Good luck.
>>
>> I haven't checked recent version, but Apple used to include a utility
>> to calibrate the display ... although it relied on your own eyes, so
>> was 100% accurate.
> <snip>
>
> Rats! That was a typo - it should have said "it relied on your own
> eyes, so was*n't* 100% accurate".  :-\

Correction not necessary, was clear what you meant to say.

(Says he who has made the same mistake at *least* once before).

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