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Permalink Reply by Michel on April 24, 2012 at 10:04am

Difficult to say as I never had an HP monitor.

Each company that makes monitors has its own software to adjust color and gamma. I suppose they keep on re-inventing the wheel in the hope of becoming the industry standard (a typical corporate wet dream.)

Monitors are notoriously difficult to calibrate without a standard image where the user "knows" what the right colors should look like.

(BTW Chris, I moved the discussion from the General category to the Technology category. You could also have posted this in Genius and Technology.)

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Permalink Reply by Chris on April 24, 2012 at 4:08pm

I didn't notice the technology category.

Last night I found some generic Mac monitor calibrator software that doesn't use a calibrator device. Maybe with that I'll be able to adjust the monitor so it's at least usable. As it is I can't stand looking at it. I have some digital photography books with color pallets that I might be able to use to match the colors to.

There are a lot of non-brand specific calibrators available on ebay @ ~ 60% off the new price. I just have to figure out which one to get. The monitor I bought (used) was $250 and had some better specifications than the same size Mac monitor selling for $500 (used). Hopefully calibrating the HP will be worth the price difference.

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Permalink Reply by Chris on April 30, 2012 at 7:22pm

I installed an aftermarket monitor calibrator and tried calibrating the monitor and it worked briefly. I think there is a loose connection internally, so I'm trying to return the monitor. This is what it looks like

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