Calibrating new monitor Dell U2412M with colormunki

[Jennifer]

Hi Damien - So my prints were still not matching well with my screen after calibrating with the spyder 4pro I had, so I was able to get a colormunki display to use. I have a question about the contrast adjustment step. My screen does in fact have a contrast adjustment, but during the calibration, it skipped the color adjustments step and went right to the brightness adjustment step.

Should I be concerned about this?

The screen actually seemed to match the prints color-wise much better, though.

Thanks!

Edited March 29, 2016 by Jennifer

[Jennifer]

It did show that it was measuring the contrast and then it measured the brightness before it went to the menu for adjusting the brightness. I ran it a second time to lower the brightness from 100 to 90, and it skipped right to the brightness adjustment again.

[Damien Symonds]

Other people have reported this too.  I've never been able to figure out why it does that to some people, I'm sorry.

24 minutes ago, Jennifer said:

The screen actually seemed to match the prints color-wise much better, though.

Ultimately, this is what matters.  I'm glad you got a better result.

[Jennifer]

Thank you. Me, too. I actually liked the colormunki better than the spyder4pro. It seemed a little easier to use (which is good for the technologically impaired such as myself)! Lol

[Damien Symonds]

Yes, it's always been my feeling that the X-Rites are a bit easier to use than the Spyders.