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Calibration success! I've got good prints that match my monitors! Thanks for all your help!

I love LR, but it was a steep learning curve. I promise when my head emerges from this rabbit hole and I have calibration done for the first time, I will take a serious look at your link. I respect your knowledge so much.

I know! This is a deep and winding rabbit hole!

I'm working on it. I decided to take this opportunity to do some video training that is long overdue on printing with Lightroom. Once that is completed, I'll be able to get back to the calibration. Thanks again for your help and encouragement.

Found my data. I actually used 120 for a targeted luminance the second time and achieved a luminance of 110. I really don't understand why I still get 4 prints that are brighter than my screen with a setting like that.

I did a second recalibration, resulting in a white point of 7553 (no change) and targeted luminance of 100 or 110 (forgot to write it down) with an achieved luminance of 110. 4 photos appear brighter than screen and 2 appear less bright than screen. I don't really see any difference from first calibration. I am going to print 6 current photos and recalibrate. I am thinking some of the photo prints I am using (they were just laying around from a while ago) may have been edited in Lightroom since they were printed. So..... fresh start. I'll get back to it tomorrow.

OK. Obviously, I am a bit thick about all this, but I'll keep going.

Laptop is finished. See above. "Laptop successfully calibrated. CCT: 7565K In doing photo comparison, I am finding that the photos are brighter than screen."

I'll do that. Thanks. And a final (I hope) question. Getting back to my external monitor, and given my high white point readings, would you recommend I use Method 1 or 2 for calibrating that monitor?

90 (choice between that and 109)

Laptop successfully calibrated. CCT: 7565K In doing photo comparison, I am finding that the photos are brighter than screen.

Got it. Will proceed with those instructions. Thanks.

I've taken the white point readings. Do you mean proceed with the other steps too?

I have now taken white readings on both the external monitor and laptop screen after selecting 'Extend'. On the external monitor, the readings are 7436-8384 and on the laptop are 7433-7803. Any ideas? Thanks.

I've just read the working with dual screens article. I had no idea! I've been duplicating them. I have not yet calibrated my laptop screen. I'll now be attempting calibration again on my external monitor and hope the readings are in the right range.