Color profiles with Dual Monitors

[Jason Stoughton]

I recently added a second monitor to my system. Although the monitors are the same model (Dell M992), there are significant color differences between them; I'd like to associate a different color profile with each monitor to help mediate this problem. However, using WinXP Pro, I am apparently unable to have more than one ICC color profile, regardless of how many monitors I'm using. For example (using the display control panel) when I associate a new color profile with one monitor, it is automatically applied to the other monitor as well.

Does anyone have a work around for this?

System info: Windows XP Pro, Radeon 7500 AGP, ASUS P4PE

Thanks!

[Klaas Visser]

Jason,

I have the same thing with my set up. The short answer is that although the monitors are the same model, they will each have different physical characteristics, hence the visibile difference.

My video card (Matrox Parhelia) came with Coloreal - a monitor calibration tool that is supposed to handle the dual monitor situation by using a single profile - I haven't used it, as I'm comfortable with Adobe Gamma, but you may want to look into it.

As all my image work is on the primary monitor, I use Adobe Gamma to set that one, and then tweak the secondary monitor controls (it has individual RGB brightness and colour controls) to get it close. This is fine for me, as there is no requirement to have 100% accurate colour on the secondary. YMMV.

cheers
Klaas

[icurate]

I have XP pro as well. I also have an ATI 9700 graphics card. The control panel for this card allows me to set a separate profile for each monitor. So, from my experience, it is not an OS issue it is your video card's driver/control panel.
Look into upgrading these (or the card itself).