IPS monitors

[ironmask]

im new to ips monitors. I recently bought two. An Asus proart and a Dell....something. Any who, both are color calibrated, but the colors on the two monitors are so worlds apart, that I wonder what color calibration even means. I bought these two, because I do photography, but the Asus is the only one that is accurate from screen to print.

What to do?

 

[Essence_of_War]

It sounds like the Dell one is not a wide gamut monitor, maybe?

If you check product/model number, you could confirm that. Otherwise, sounds like the best option is to return the dell and pick up another Asus (if you need the 2nd) if color accuracy is essential from screen->print.

 

[BrightCandle]

Very much depends what they were calibrated to exactly. No monitor is perfect and my experience of a precalibrated monitor is that it comes with the dV really low and the brightness and hence contrast maxed out. I can't use them that bright so I turn them down, and then they need recalibrating.

For them to look the same you probably want to focus on calibrating towards the colour temperature you want and get the gamma curve right. There will still be differences in the gamut which you can't do much about and you may as well forget about dV and contrast if matching the two is the goal but they should be able to at least get a bit closer.

The problem you likely face however is that the colours of the backlights could be wildly different, so they will never match. I have had 3 monitors from the same batch of the same manufacturer and the same model and they didn't match.

 

[ironmask]

Thanks for the replies. The asus I bought brand new, but the Dell, I bought used-- so there is no return policy there. I bought the second monitor to improve my workflow, and I find myself doing everything on the asus and the dell only being good for browsing. The differences between colors is worlds apart. sadness.

 

[BrightCandle]

Not all IPS monitors are good. Its a myth that seems to have been pushed by an element that misunderstands the genuine differences in monitors. Just because its IPS doesn't mean its got 10 bit colour or accurate colour, it just means it switches relatively slowly (not an issue for you) and has low colour shift with off angle viewing. The models matter far more than the manufacturer.

 

[Throckmorton]

Adjust the Dell to get it as close as possible to the Asus, which you know is calibrated properly

 

[Bearmann]

Don't some video cards only allow for one look up table? If so, the second monitor uses the look up table profiled for the first monitor, which of course, is incorrect for that monitor. Can you check to make sure that each monitor is using the profile that was made for it? I assume you are using a puck to calibrate the monitors.

 

[ruben_c]

im new to ips monitors. I recently bought two. An Asus proart and a Dell....something. Any who, both are color calibrated, but the colors on the two monitors are so worlds apart, that I wonder what color calibration even means. I bought these two, because I do photography, but the Asus is the only one that is accurate from screen to print.

What to do?

You say they're color calibrated? Have you calibrated them yourself?
Because no monitor really comes color calibrated from factory, you need to calibrate each monitor-computer combination with a tool like Spyder4 if you want them to match and to show the colors correctly.

 

[MoJoSoDOPE]

the difference in color is likely the panel produced. i know LG makes dell panels, but not sure about who makes asus. or it could be that they are factory settings and come in their own standard