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<p>When I first started photography I used to print on a Epson R1800 and R300, but I lost my enthusiasm for photography for a few years, I am starting to get it back which is why I was looking at a calibrator more up to date than the spyder2 pro.<br> I think I have nailed it though (well the screens look the same) instead of resetting back to factory settings on the monitors, I put the R,G and B sliders up to 100, brightness up to 100 and contrast to 50 on all monitors. Calibrated them with the spyder 2 pro and it worked. I am only using 2 of the monitors and the calibration colour chart looks identical on both, so I saved myself £200, money toward my 400L f 5.6.<br> Thanks to all for advising me to stick with continuing to use a calibrator, all great advice.</p>

<p>Hi.<br /> I have had a spyder 2 pro for about 8 years but with progression I now have 3 LED monitors and after searching it appears the Spyder 2 pro is not up to the task of calibrating LED monitors. I have tried and 2 Benq monitors have a similar colour cast, but the iilyama is way off. I decided to get a spyder 5 pro but after reading reviews it seems this also has problems with different colour casts on different monitors. I don't want to waste money if I can't get the same colour on all monitors. I only used the spyder 2 pro on one Samsung LCD monitor at the beginning so was none the wiser if it looked different on another monitor. So I guess my question is, are these calibraters just a gimmick ?</p> <p>Thanks for reading<br /> Jim</p>