- Monitor Basics in Plain English
- Pixel Pitch and Enlarged Mode
- Native Resolution and Enlarge Mode
- How can a screen sense touch? A basic understanding of touch panels
- Is the beauty of a curve decisive for color reproduction? Learning about LCD monitor gamma
- Smoother Video with Cutting-Edge Technologies: LCD Monitor I/P Conversion
- Altering color dramatically with a single setting: Examining color temperature on an LCD monitor
- Maximum Display Colors and Look-Up Tables: Two Considerations When Choosing a Monitor
- DisplayPort to D-Sub: The Full Range of LCD Monitor Video Input Interfaces
- The Ability to Display Color Correctly Is Vital: Understanding the Color Gamut of an LCD Monitor
- The Making of a FlexScan Monitor
- Are the Response Time Figures True? A Close Look at LCD Video Performance
- The Difference in Image Quality Is Perfectly Obvious! – Let's Check the LCD's Display
- Making Full Use of the "External" LCD with Laptop Computers
- Color Management Resources
Hardware calibration
Advantages
Hardware calibration enables easy calibration in a short period of time, using specialized hardware and software.
In addition, since hardware calibration controls the hardware of the monitor directly, this method offers high precision and good gradation characteristics.
As with the example for software calibration on the previous page, hardware calibration will be described here using the example of adjustment to 5,000 K.
When reducing green output to 85% and blue to 70% inside the monitor, hardware calibration differs from software calibration in that the number of gradations (reduced in software calibration) is adjusted to 256 with the hardware-based method. This adjustment allows for accurate gradation display, with no loss in the number of available gradations. In addition, since the calibration process is fully automatic, precision remains high even after repeated calibration. As a result, hardware calibration does not involve the minor variations with each adjustment that occur in software calibration, enabling the preparation of more accurate monitor profiles.
Drawbacks
Since calibration monitors are specially designed, they cost more than ordinary monitors. In addition, some monitors on the market that are compatible with hardware calibration have drawbacks: offering insufficient precision, for example, or requiring a very long time for calibration, even when fully automatic.
