Calibrating issue with Lacie 724 Monitor w/Blue Eye software and Spyder2/colormunki

Not sure if anyone can help out due to how new these monitors are.<br/>

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Heres what we have setup<br/>

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<u>Computer 1</u><br/>

Lacie 724 monitor<br/>

XP Pro 32b<br/>

EVGA 8600GTS video card<br/>

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<u>Computer 2</u><br/>

Lacie 724 monitor<br/>

Vista Business 32b (UAC is disabled which is very important for color calibrated monitors)<br/>

Asus 8500GT video card<br/>

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We just got 2 new Lacie 724 Monitors and are having issues color calibrating them. We have used spyder 2 and more

recently color munki on previous monitors. When we first installed Lacie's blue eye software, neither

colorimeter was recognized by the software (we uninstalled all old calibration software). After installing the

spyder software again and disabling it from startup, the software was able to find the spyder2. Doing the same

with color munki resulted in non recognition again. We were able to get the most recent update of the blue eye

software from Lacie (couldnt find it anywhere on their site and had to email support for a link which I think is

not discoverable through their site navigation). After the update, the results were the same.<br/>

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After we calibrated in blue eye with spyder2, computer 1 took a couple of tries but we were able to get it close

to certification, but still not certified. Here's the <a

href="http://www.thephotographictouch.com/files/UGRA-report-computer-1.pdf">UGRA report</a>

Notice that the Tone Value % finally got up to 100% for this test but it is still not certified due to Profile

Quality and the Whitepoint areas. <br/>

The Gamut-Volume is much lower than it should be, sRGB is 100% and AdobeRGB is 95%<br/>

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For the second computer it is not even close. We have run the test at least a dozen times, trying different

settings and have a max tonal value of 90.5%. <a

href="http://www.thephotographictouch.com/files/UGRA-report-computer-2.pdf">Most recent Results</a><br/>

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We are actually starting to get closer to a certified calibration on the second computer with the monitor on the

custom setting instead of calibration setting (we are manually adjusting the brightness and contrast values)<br/>

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Any ideas?

Your Lacie monitor is RGB LED backlit. It requires a colorimeter with the proper filters installed to calibrate the wide gamut

monitor. The Spyder 3 does have these built in filters and would be a better choice for accurate calibration of LED wide gamut

monitors.

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