bouncybunny - 12:26 pm on Oct 29, 2006 (gmt 0)

Calibration for 'on-screen' displays is a myth. As someone else said, the Pantone system is a print product and should stay there. Calibration is a method of reconciling the methods of the print design industry, which uses the CMYK colour space and 'on-screen' desktop publishing which views colour on RGB monitors.

The idea of calibration is that you find a way of 'standardising' the display and output of colours across a variety of known devices, using specific hardware profiles. It is impossible to effectively do this for the monitors of users who are not even in your office. And even then, the monitors will look different under different lighting conditions and a variety of other factors.

And when it comes to LCD monitors the issue is even worse than CRT. Each production batch is different and, being a developing technology, manufacturers are constantly updating their products.