SO I've been using this machine for about a year and I really like it...but I've gotten some prints back where the colors were pretty muted and contrast was off. I've been calibrating with a Huey Pro which I'm kind ambivalent about. But I think that it's just not doing a good enough job. I know the brightness of these screens is way too much and have it set to it's lowest and have used Shades to get it even lower but still the colors just don't come out how I see them on my screen. I usually work in Adobe RGB until I need to post to web then it's sRGB.

So I'm wondering if anyone else has this machine (white 24" Intel iMac) and how they calibrate and what color spaces they use? I know I've heard on here that a lot of people stick with sRGB always but to me, it seems like you're giving up on a lot of color for prints by doing so. Obviously web is just fine for this though.

Any and all insight would be helpful!

Cheers!

Spyder2Pro from Amazon.com. I've got a friend who has nothing but problems with his Huey and Apple Cinema Displays (not imac, but close enough I guess) and he now uses a Spyder2Pro with no problems whatsoever.

Best of luck.

PS the S2Pro is ~$170 on amazon. and your calibration points should be the industry standard 2.2 gamma and 6500K color temp.

What/Who are you using for printing? I assume they accept either format.

I've got my points set to 6500K and gamma to 2.2 and they look great on my screen and on another windows machine but prints are just blah...I don't like the huey pro because it just doesn't give you enough options to make changes to. It's too automatic and also depends on a contrast control which isn't available.

Probably will need to try another calibration device. Would it be possible to use the Huey Pro device with different software?

who are you printing with?

Sorry, WHCC, they take sRGB and Adobe RGB