Running a standard monitor calibration, Advanced monitor calibration, Hardware setup – SpectraCal CalMAN RGB User Manual
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4. Drag the CalMAN RGB window to the screen of the monitor you wish to calibrate.
5. Follow the instructions within the Standard Calibration workflow for placing your meter on the
pattern window provided. Be sure Multiple Monitors is selected to the left of the pattern window.
6. Select Display Type from the drop-down provided.
7. When prompted, click the Read button to connect the meter to CalMAN RGB.
8. Continue using the instructions provided within the workflow to complete the calibration.
Running a Standard Monitor Calibration
Once the light meter has been placed in the pattern window on your target monitor and connected to CalMAN
RGB, you are ready to calibrate your computer monitor. Click the Calibrate button to automatically calibrate.
Once you have finished, you may calibrate a second monitor on the same computer, or go online to
to purchase CalMAN Client 3 licenses for additional computers in your
home. (CalMAN RGB includes software licenses for up to three computer calibrations.)
Advanced Monitor Calibration
Hardware Setup
Setup arrangements for the Advanced Calibration are more complex than those for the Standard Calibration.
With a Mac, the Advanced Calibration requires use of a CalMAN Client 3 pattern window (labeled below),
however setups including the Client 3 pattern window may be used for Windows computers as well.
In each setup diagram, note that the meter is placed over the monitor that is to be calibrated (target
computer), while CalMAN RGB is run either from that same monitor or a secondary monitor.
(To calibrate a remote computer on a shared network, see diagram 2.5.)
Those calibrating a Mac must open a pattern window from CalMAN Client 3 on their Mac OS but open CalMAN
RGB separately from a virtualized Windows machine. When calibrating a Mac, the pattern window provided
by CalMAN RGB software is therefore inactivated. For best results, calibrate a Mac monitor by running
CalMAN RGB on a secondary, local monitor (figure 2.3).
2.1 Calibrating a single monitor on a local Windows computer.
Use the setup diagram below to conduct an Advanced Calibration on a single monitor connected to a
Windows computer.