Monitor Calibration

Monitor Calibration

It is essential for direct output that you calibrate your monitor. Please request your calibration CD, to get you up and running, through W&P customer service.

Manual monitor calibration procedure

WINDOWS PC

1.	Using the physical controls on your monitor set your white point temperature to 6500 degrees Kelvin
2.	Open the calibration CD run the Setup.exe file inside the CMM folder to install the Kodak colour management module
3.	Match your Photoshop colour settings to those as specified in the Colour Settings.pdf
4.	Please supply at 200 dpi or 400 dpi if files contain text
5.	Open “Calibration.jpg” in Photoshop
6.	Open “Adobe Gamma” from your control Panels folder and follow the “wizard”
7.	Once the wizard has finished, unselect “use single gamma” and adjust the separate RGB controls until the hard copies of the prints, match the corresponding images on the screen
8.	Save the calibration as “BondCal” followed by the date e.g. “BondCal310505”
Double check that the hard copies of the prints match those on the screen, and repeat steps 6 through 9 if necessary.

Mac

1.	Using the physical controls on your monitor set your white point temperature to 6500 degrees Kelvin.
2.	In Photoshop, open the “Colour Settings.psd”
3.	Match your Photoshop colour settings to those as specified in the Colour Settings.psd
4.	Open “Calibration.jpg” in Photoshop
5.	Download “SuperCal” by Berg Design - http://www.bergdesign.com/supercal/
6.	Follow the steps in SuperCal to calibrate your monitor
7.	Once calibration is complete, open “calibration.jpg” from the CD, and check the supplied print against the screen.

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