Monitor for Piezography?

[Adamphotoman]

These new monitors have way too much contrast and brightness. I use Color Eyes and several bits of hardware including the Munki.

I believe that you can edit your calibration profiles to get better results.

[Kirk Gittings]

Calibration is important and easy enough to do with the proper equipment. But we are not actually talking about calibration here. We are talking about soft proofing for a given print on specific media with a specific ink. It would be a mistake to profile your monitor to exactly proof a print unless that is all you used your monitor for.

[nreeque]

Don't give up on the Imac, Finally after months of being close enough I decided to experiment with setting the monitor to a lower brightness and let the calibration try and deliver. Set to 5 ( brightness) and a new calibration with a colormunki did the trick. I also use the RGB numbers as a guide and now can see deep into the shadows. DEEP as in all of the shadows. I used QTR to create ICC softproof profiles for my inkset and its so very close I know where all the values will land. Also came to the realization to let the prints dry for 48 hours before I make a decision to fine tune it. Let us know what you come up with, but don't think the Imac screen cannot deliver what your looking for.

[Gary Tarbert]

I use an Eizo monitor for print and a apple monitor for tools etc , I calibrate both often ,i sometimes drag the image across too see the difference . the Eizo is the only one that resembles the print . Apple look great on movies etc but Apple have gone for a consumer palate these days and are no longer reliable monitors for critical work . Cheers Gary