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Hey,RC. About the white point. Standard daylight setting is 6500K. Many people who do primarily print work use 5000K. It makes your monitor much warmer but your screen colors will match printed material viewed in indirect natural light much more closely. Another point. In general the iMacs look best with a Gamma setting of 1.8 (considered the Mac Standard) but most of the world works with a gamma of 2.2 so many professional graphics users who are Mac based set their profile up with a 2.2 gamma for better visual communication with the Windows world. All my monitors are set up with a 2.2 Gamma and 5000K based profiles.


There is an absolutely superior software calibration application for Macs. It is a $19 shareware and is as good or better than all but the most expensive hardware calibration systems.


SuperCal? is a visual display calibrator capable of measuring and correcting most conventional displays, including LCDs, CRTs and projectors. SuperCal doesn't require any hardware measurement devices - only your eyeballs - yet it can be much more accurate, based on how well you pay attention to what your doing :) .


http://www.bergdesign.com/supercal/


One other thing for the iMac specifically. Somewhere I have a little software utility which was provided to Apple Techs but not released to the general public which increased the brightness capacities of the iMac. I'll rummage around and try and find it in case you're interested.


What is our favorite program/app? (Hint - it begins and ends with the letter P)
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