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Page 1: ...User Manual When Colour is Critical ...

Page 2: ...18 3 2 Selection of the calibration preset 19 3 3 Preparation of the monitor calibration 20 3 3 1 Cleanliness of the screen 20 3 3 2 Reflections Stray Light 20 3 3 3 Ambient Light 20 3 3 4 Monitor Warm Up 20 3 3 5 Driver for the graphic card 20 3 3 6 Screen Saver Power Saving Mode 21 3 3 7 Position of the measurement device 21 3 4 Starting the profile creation 22 3 5 Selecting a measurement instru...

Page 3: ...Target values 28 3 7 1 Achieved values 28 3 7 3 Tolerances 28 3 7 4 Display CIEAB 29 3 7 5 Load validation result 29 3 7 6 Save report as 29 4 Advanced settings 31 4 1 Select instrument 31 4 1 1 Mode 32 4 1 2 Monitor Type 32 4 2 Monitortyp 34 4 3 Calibration method 35 4 3 1 Hardware calibration 35 4 3 2 Combined hard and software calibration 37 4 3 4 No calibration 40 4 4 Calibration preset 41 4 5...

Page 4: ...iew 61 4 10 1 Monitor 61 10 4 3 Ambient Light 62 10 4 4 Check viewing booth 63 4 10 4 Edit calibration 65 4 10 5 Color Space Emulation 67 5 Preferences 69 5 1 General 69 5 1 1 Language 69 5 1 2 Measurements 69 5 1 3 Calibration options 69 5 1 4 Path to the analysis software catch 70 5 2 Profile creation 70 5 2 1 Save profiles to 70 5 2 2 Profile name default 70 5 3 Security 71 5 4 Display settings...

Page 5: ...Settings in the main menu 74 5 6 1 Select system profile 74 5 6 2 Chromaticity and gamut Spectral distribution 75 5 6 3 Validation results 76 6 Product information and Contact Data 78 6 1 Product information SpectraView Profiler 78 6 2 Contact Data 79 ...

Page 6: ...Chapter 1 Preface ...

Page 7: ...computers video card s Video LUT or automatically via hard ware calibration only with supported displays To maximize your color management results with SpectraView Profiler 5 it is important to calibrate and profile all the components involved in the production process including scanners and printers By imple menting SpectraView Profiler 5 into your workflow you will be able to offer your clients ...

Page 8: ...Chapter 2 Installation and Licensing ...

Page 9: ...X 10 6 or higher min of 512 MB available system memory RAM Windows Intel Pentium III or 4 Prozessor Windows XP SP3 Windows 7 Windows 8 min of 512 MB available system memory RAM All Systems Min 100 MB free hard disk space DVD drive Color monitor with a resolution of least 1024 x 768 pixels and color depth of 24 Bit 16 7 million colors ...

Page 10: ...his document describes the application of SpectraView Profiler 5 for both Mac OS X and Windows Any differences in operation or special instructions that apply to either system will be indicated Before beginning the installation process please make sure that your measurement device is not connected to the computer Connect it after the software has been successfully installed ...

Page 11: ...lick on it to access the SpectraView Profiler 5 Installer or open the downloaded installer We recommend a look at our download area as this ensures you have the latest version Windows If the SpectraView Profiler 5 CD ROM does not appear automatically go to My Computer and select the CD ROM drive 3 Begin installation by double clicking the SpectraView Profiler 5 Installer Follow the instructions on...

Page 12: ...EC cables from the box In addition we highly recom mend to connect the SpectraView display with the computer with the included USB cable Some display connections need the USB cable for the hardware communication between SpectraView Profiler 5 and the SpectraView display Only if no SpectraView display is connected to the computer a separate paid license is needed to unlock SpectraView Profiler 5 On...

Page 13: ...ot connected directly to the Inter net use a different computer to access http mylicense biz spectraview and click on Licensing Follow the instructions on the screen c If you do not have an Internet connection at all click on the Fax Form button to open a PDF document Fill it out and fax it to the fax number you find on the form If you have never registered on the NEC web site you will need to com...

Page 14: ...icensing without a TAN section on the licensing web site Your licensing request will be processed and after all technical and commercial requirements have been met you will get access to your individual license file Machine ID The number entered in this field must be the same as the number displayed in the SpectraView Profiler 5 Licensing window since this is the number that will be used in genera...

Page 15: ...iew_profiler lic click on the button Install License and install the license file to the applica tion Now the application is unlock and ready to use Once you have received your license file spectraview_profiler lic it is valid for all software updates and reinstallation of SpectraView Profiler 5 on that particular computer If you wish to install SpectraView Profiler 5 on additional computers you n...

Page 16: ...16 Profiler User Manual window and shows the status of your license in the top left corner In our example the license is permanent ...

Page 17: ...Chapter 3 Quick Start ...

Page 18: ...is makes SpectraView Profiler 5 very comfortable to use Workflow Icons In the upper area of the main window is a row of icons located This icons represent different presets to calibrate and profile the individual displays Profile information The currently loaded profile of the display and some additional informations are listed at the bottom of the main window Calibration presets In the middle sec...

Page 19: ...f the main window of SpectraView Profiler 5 the current active display profile is shown Additional information about a color space emulation and when the display was validated for the last time can be found there too Please check your user permission before you start SpectraView Profiler Only sys tem Administrators have the permission to write to the system folder of an operating system where all ...

Page 20: ...en If so you need to change the monitor position and or to shield the monitor with an ambient light hood 3 3 3 Ambient Light The ambient light in your working environment should comply with the relevant standards For measuring the ambient light please refer to chapter 4 10 2 Ambient light 3 3 4 Monitor Warm Up The colors of a monitor are becoming stable after a certain time For this reason please ...

Page 21: ...nd profiling of your monitors please deactivate all screen savers and the power management of your operat ing system Otherwise incorrect measurements can occur during the calibration and profiling process 3 3 7 Position of the measurement device Please check if the measurement device is positioned flat on the screen surface Otherwise ambient light can enter the sensor resulting in false measuremen...

Page 22: ...l 3 4 Starting the profile creation After the selection of a calibration preset the calibration and profiling process can be started by a click on the Start button The Start button is located under the row of workflow icons ...

Page 23: ...e selected Then the instrument can be connected to SpectraView Profiler 5 with a clock on the Connect button Follow the instructions to calibrate the instrument if necessary At last the Monitor type has to be selected if available When all selections are done the window can be closed with a click on Ok At every next start the SpectraView Profiler shows the last selected connected measurement instr...

Page 24: ...it s possible to enlarge the measurement window to full screen checking the Fullscreen checkbox The calibration and profiling process can be started by a click on the Measure button The following measurement sequence can be separated into four single parts 3 6 1 Measuring Color Characteristic The first step of the calibration is to gather the actual color properties of the monitor This is required...

Page 25: ...urements have been processed SpectraView Profiler 5 will show you the results of the calibration and profiling process The measurement window will close automatically the ICC profile will be saved to the defined folder and the new ICC profile will be activated So you don t have to select and activate the profile manually In the main window you can see a summary of the results of calibration and pr...

Page 26: ...this validation is to check the integrity of the profile It just checks if the display achieves the same values as to the time the display calibration was processed This validation should be used as indicator if the calibration and the profile is still valid or a if a new calibration profile has to be created This validation should be used periodically to check if the display of the monitor has ch...

Page 27: ...ation time To validate the display place the measurement instrument in the middle of the measurement window and start the validation process with a click on measure Then a series of color patches will be measured and the results are compared to the measurements which where done at the time the profile was created Besides the target values and the achieved values SpectraView Profiler 5 will show a ...

Page 28: ...ation result is ok or if the display has the be calibrated and profiled again For this reason there are some practicular tolerances are preselected to help the user to determine the threshold where to decide if a new calibration has to be done or not In the lower right area of the validation window represends a sinple icon if the validation has passed all criteria or not When all criteria are pass...

Page 29: ...YZ values it is checked by default 3 7 5 Load validation result For every created validation SpectraView Profiler 5 will save the measurements in the background To load a saved validation report click on Load validation result and select a validation from the list The validation results are saved by the date and time they have been created 3 7 6 Save report as Another useful option of SpectraView ...

Page 30: ...Chapter 4 Advanced Settings ...

Page 31: ...con in the top left in the advanced window of SpectraView Profiler 5 or by selecting File Select Measurement Device in the main menu of SpectraView Profiler 5 the measurement device selection window will pop up Symbole für die auswählbaren Messgeräte basICColor SQUID2 basICColor SQUID basICColor SQUID3 basICColor DISCUS DTP 94 ColorMunki Sequel Chroma 4 USB Chroma 5 EyeOne Display LT EyeOne Displa...

Page 32: ...lays 4 1 2 Monitor Type Some modern colorimeters like the basICColor DISCUS or the basIC Color SQUID3 offering a quite more optimized adjustment of the instru ment to the used monitor It s possible to select a specific type of display or even a specific monitor model Please contact the manufacturer of your monitor to get information about the used technology of your monitor Also please consult the...

Page 33: ...ctraView Profiler 5 is supporting the following measurement devices Colorimeter basICColor DISCUS basICColor SQUID basICColor SQUID 2 basICColor SQUID 2 WG basICColor SQUID 3 basICColor RAY please select X Rite DTP 94 USB datacolor Spyder 2 datacolor Spyder 3 Monaco OPTIX XR NEC MDSV Sensor please select basICColor SQUID2 SQUID2wg X Rite DTP 94 USB X Rite Eye One display X Rite Eye One display 2 X...

Page 34: ...le The better you pre adjust the monitor hardware to the desired display characteristics the better the quality of the resulting profile By calibrat ing the monitor you will improve the representation of all colors because the profile conversion will have to correct for less and smaller differ ences SpectraView Profiler 5 offers three different calibration methods At first launch it will automatic...

Page 35: ...onitors are connected to the computer via a digital data connection This could be a DDC CI video cable or a separate USB or serial cable SpectraView Profiler 5 uses this connec tions to directly control the monitor and to calibrate it automatically based on the results of your measurements This functionality is only available for selected hardware calibrateable monitors see HW_Support_List txt in ...

Page 36: ...work with signal processing of 10 or more bits per channel e g 10 bits 1024 steps If one channel should be reduced to 50 there will be enough remain ing data to describe the 256 steps of the color signal sent to the monitor This means that there is differentiation between all the colors they do not get clogged up This alone does not make a monitor hardware calibrateable The monitor needs to be abl...

Page 37: ...lly but instrumented with the help of Hardware setup in SpectraView Profiler 5 For optimal calibration and profiling results for soft proofing and high end image retouching basICColor recommends the use of hardware calibratable LCD monitors 4 3 2 Combined hard and software calibration Some modern monitors are offering a partial calibration in hardware i g Apple displays or some NEC MultiSync displ...

Page 38: ...onitors offer near to none of these control options e g notebook monitors Some of them have a brightness control only which dims the backlight not to be confused with CRT s brightness control which sets the luminance of the black point Due to the necessary correction these monitors are not suited for color critical work or for soft proofing LCD monitors with an analog connector only will yield inf...

Page 39: ...automati cally detects the presence of calibration curves in an ICC profile and downloads them into the video card at system start up or when allocat ing a different ICC profile using the monitors control panel Windows Some older Windows color management frameworks ICM does not support this functionality a separate LUT loader is required Spectra View Profiler 5 contains such a LUT loader which is ...

Page 40: ...e worst case the graphic card does not support video LUT download some PC graphic cards The monitor must then be characterized in it s present state Corrections for color temperature and tone curve are not available in this mode Also adjustment of luminance and contrast can only be done manually SpectraView Profiler 5 supports you with measurement values in setting these parameters Should the grap...

Page 41: ...ew Profiler 5 much easier You can even make your own presets Please find a detailed explana tion in the extended part of the manual chapter 4 If you like one of the presets or if you made your own preset then just select the set which you like to use for calibrating and profiling your monitor and go on with the next step You can select one of the following presets Softproof This is the recommended...

Page 42: ...o retouch their images for the output of an photo lab Fine Art Printers Inkjets or other printing devices DICOM LUT This preset can be used to optimize your monitor for an medical workflow CIE LUT This is another preset to set up the monitor for a CIE based medical workflow Adobe RGB 1998 The monitor will be set up to optimized for an AdobeRGB workflow by using this preset custom If any setting of...

Page 43: ...er 5 The default setting for it is custom But this workflow icon is a placeholder for a whole list of calibration presets The name and the preset which are represented by this workflow icon can be changed It is possible to select between all calibration presets except those which are already represented by a workflow icon To change the calibration preset for this workflow icon make a right mouse c...

Page 44: ...workflow icon will change to the name of the selected calibration preset The calibration settings which are represented by workflow icon can be seen in the middle of the main window of SpectraView Profiler 5 If the custom workflow icon will be used to create a calibration and profile for the display these new settings will be used then ...

Page 45: ... will rename the calibration preset form it s original name to the name custom At this point SpectraView Profiler 5 gives the user the opportunity to save these new calibration settings as a custom calibration set with it s own name To save the calibration settings as new set please select File Save presets from the main menu of SpectraView Profiler 5 Alternatively use the shortcut S to get to the...

Page 46: ...tion set can be chosen from the list of calibration presets like any other predefined calibration preset It s possible to activate the new created calibration preset via the custom workflow icon in the main window of SpectraView Profiler 5 ...

Page 47: ...y 2800 K The higher the color temperature the more blueish the emitted light e g not calibrated CRT monitor approx 9300 K Color temperature only describes a certain color sensation not a specific spectral distribution So it s unknown how the measured x and y values are composed spectrally The CIE Commission Internationale de l Eclairage have de fined spectral distributions of standard lighting sit...

Page 48: ...ction If you are in one of these trades you should calibrate your monitor to D65 Other Dxx For specific purposes it may be advisable to calibrate to a different daylight white point Enter the full correlated color temperature here e g 7500 Monitor s native Each monitor has it s own typical white point that is dis played when all 3 channels R G and B Gains are set to max With this setting he lumina...

Page 49: ...aracterized with its corre lated color temperature D50 for example has an approximate color temperature of 5000K but the blackbody radiator has a different spectral distribution at 5000K Monitors show a different characteristic spectral distribution their white point can only be approximated ...

Page 50: ...nction L recommended Theoretically the ideal color system for cross media publishing is L a b It equals the characteristics of human color perception So it is logical to combine the advantages of the L a b with the representation of tone values on a monitor The L method calibrates your monitor in such a way that gray scales appear visually equidistant If you increase the R G and B signals by the f...

Page 51: ...his gamma function can easily be modified into a different gamma behavior In the early days of monitor calibration it seemed a good idea to calibrate a monitor to a gamma that is similar to the tonal response of printed matter to be precise gamma 1 8 was the characteristic of an Apple LaserWriter Thus gamma 1 8 became the typical Apple monitor gamma On a PC where you normally did your bookkeeping ...

Page 52: ...orts a gamma value of 2 2 In the shadows it resemble more an L curve in the mid tones and highlights it follows the gamma 2 2 curve In order to exactly match sRGB data Spectra View Profiler is the only monitor calibration application that offers an sRGB calibration curve for these applications CIECAM02 How the effective contrast ratio will be reproduced in an workflow doesn t depends on the monito...

Page 53: ...ast ratio combination monitor and ambient light by choosing on of the CIECAM02 setting The NEC recommends to use one of the following settings depending on luminance of the ambient light of the room 0 32 Lux CIECAM02 dark 32 64 Lux CIECAM02 dimmed 64 Lux CIECAM02 bright The luminance and the white point of the ambient light of the room can be measured with a measurement device which supports ambie...

Page 54: ...he brightness of an LCD monitor or the contrast of a CRT the quantity of light and thus the white luminance will be reduced All monitors have a different native white luminance In order to be visually equal they need to be calibrated to the same maximum luminance The reference is always the monitor with the least bright ness All other monitors must be adjusted to the darkest one In order to determ...

Page 55: ...e instructions on the screen Contrast The ratio between brightest and darkest value of a monitor is called contrast ratio The higher the contrast ratio the better is the differentia tion of tonal values If white luminance and black luminance of two monitors are equal the contrast ratio is the same So it is irrelevant if you calibrate to the same white and black luminances or the same luminance and...

Page 56: ...ile So only a certain number of color combi nations will be described in a profile the others will be interpolated mathematically Matrix based The simplest way to describe the color properties of a device is a color matrix It contains the 3 primaries red green and blue and a function that describes the tonal response curves for the 3 channels The main advantage of this profile type is its small si...

Page 57: ...values will be interpolated This allows to describe non linear behavior of a device The size of a LOUT profile can be some where between 200 KB and more than 2 MB With 16 bit encoding the accuracy of a LUT profile will be increased dramatically 256 times more accurate while the size only doubles That s why SpectraView Profiler offers 16 bit LUT profiles only ...

Page 58: ...t Within the ICC color management system D50 is the reference illumi nant Should a monitor be calibrated to a different white point e g D65 all colors displayed on this monitor need to be converted so that they appear like they were being viewed under D50 lighting Such transformations are called Chromatic Adaptation Transforms CATs There has been a significant amount of research in determining CAT...

Page 59: ... D50 lineare Bradford A widely used newer chromatic adaptation transform is the Bradford transform It was empirically derived by Lam from a set of correspond ing colors as determined from 58 dyed wool samples with varying color constancy evaluated under illuminants A and D65 The original Bradford chromatic adaptation transform contains a non linear correc tion in the blue region In many applicatio...

Page 60: ...reate ICC profiles according to the latest specification including the correct chromatic adaptation tag Under windows v4 profiles do not make sense since the Windows color management system ICM is not capable of utilizing these profiles ACE the CMM built into Adobe products can handle v4 profiles ...

Page 61: ...a DeltaE information along with Deltas for L a and b separately display CIE LAB This check box lets you switch between Lab and XYZ values it is checked by default Tolerancing model With the radio buttons in the upper right corner of the window you can switch tolerancing models from DeltaE 94 de fault to DeltaE Lab The latter is still the standard method for determining the distance between two col...

Page 62: ...re ments you need one that came with the Ambient Light Head For ambient light measurement SpectraView Profiler 5 offers reference data for three different situations Check the radio button that represents the desired situation In order to measure ambient light click Measure 10 4 3 Ambient Light In order to be able to judge colors accurately on a monitor you need a controlled environment as describ...

Page 63: ...ack wall of your viewing booth Make sure the background is a neutral gray In doubt use a gray card that has no metameric failure like the basICColor gray card In the measure window you ll see the measurement values updated with each measurement Thus you can adjust your ambient light or viewing booth until the required values have been reached Click Done and then Close when you want to stop measuri...

Page 64: ...l be possible to compare a photographic print proof or any other artwork with the display on the monitor SpectraView Profiler 5 communicates with the lightbooth and will automatically adjust its brightness to the monitors brightness Please take notice that the monitors brightness should be set to a standardized value The ISO 3664 requires a luminance of 500 125 lux Other settings are also possible...

Page 65: ...des White point In this mode you can influence the brightness in all three channels or in 1 selected channel without affecting the shape of the calibration curve If you click and drag the white point you reduce or increase white luminance in the selected channel Once you have reached 100 and continue dragging contrast but not the intensity will be increased but you will lose definition in the high...

Page 66: ...the tonal response curve of the red channel will be affected Blue and green channels remain unaffected Green Only the tonal response curve of the green channel will be affected Red and blue channels remain unaffected Blue Only the tonal response curve of the blue channel will be affected Red and green channels remain unaffected Undo Undo the last change Reset Revert curves to the LUTs stored in th...

Page 67: ...ted colors than the colors of the emulated color gamut Even when the monitor is able to show those colors in it s native color gamut Excluded from the emulation of the color gamut is the white point and the tonal response curve of the monitor and of course the black and white luminances Tip If a Wide Gamut display should emulate a color gamut as good as possible then the color temperature and the ...

Page 68: ...Chapter 5 Preferences ...

Page 69: ...neral In this tab the general settings for SpectraView Profiler 5 can be set up 5 1 1 Language Select the language SpectraView Profiler 5 should use from this menu 5 1 2 Measurements Additionally you can define if yo want a click tone with every measure ment 5 1 3 Calibration options When this check box is active SpectraView Profiler 5 uses less color patches to create a calibration and the profil...

Page 70: ...ation In this tab some presets for the profile creation can be set up 5 2 1 Save profiles to This dialog allows you to specify the folder for storing the ICC profiles you create For the System profiles folder you will need administra tor rights for the user profiles folder standard user permissions are sufficient If you want to save the created profile into an alternative folder you can select thi...

Page 71: ... administrated If you leave the field blank the machine ID will be inserted Additionally you can specify name and path to the protocol files i e to create copies of protocol files on a network storage You can also activate password security which allows the start of SpectraView Profiler only after entering the correct password ...

Page 72: ... NEC SpectraView Displays SpectraView Profiler 5 can control and change this additional settings So it s possible to lock the OSD On Screen Display of NEC displays by activating the check box in this tab Additionally some displays like the NEC SpectraView series allow it to change the settings for the Digital Uniformity Control ColorComp ...

Page 73: ...73 Profiler User Manual 5 5 Online Services This feature is supported in a future version of SpectraView Profiler ...

Page 74: ... LUT loader for this task This application is being installed to the Startup Programs folder when you install SpectraView Profiler 5 If you use a hardware calibrateable monitor neither of the operating systems provides a mechanism to download LUTs into the monitor Normally this information is stored in the monitor at calibration time and stays there permanently If you change profiles e g for diffe...

Page 75: ...nce measured the primaries Red Green and Blue define a color triangle the gamut of your monitor in the x y diagram In the menu Window Spectral distribution or with the shortcut 1 you open an additional window that shows the spectrum of the actual measurement This option is only available if the measurement instru ment used is a spectrophotometer Click on the Save button to store the spectrum in an...

Page 76: ...76 Profiler User Manual 5 6 3 Validation results The last validation result can be opened by holding i or by selecting Window Validation results from the main menu ...

Page 77: ...Chapter 6 Product information and Contact Data ...

Page 78: ...ty for inaccuracies or errors that may appear in this document No part of this user guide may be reproduced transmitted transcribed or trans lated into any language without the express written permission of basICColor GmbH Trademark Information basICColor and the Fingerprint are a registered trademark of basICColor GmbH All other trademarks or registered trademarks are the property of their respec...

Page 79: ...ct adresses Information about the SpectraView monitors hardware you can get under E Mail infomail nec displays com Web www spectraview nec display solutions com www nec display solutions com If you have technical support questions regarding the SpectraView Profiler software please contact E Mail spectraview nec displays com ...

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