When we first purchased the monitor I did a lot of experimenting with various ways to make a monitor profile, and settled on not using a calibration file and instead profiling the monitor using its native white point and tone response curve. For its time, this was an excellent monitor, it's been very reliable over the years, and I'm pretty sure it's got a few more years of service left in it. My current monitor is a nine-year-old NEC LCD 2190UXI. What the monitor and graphics card can accomplish Well, I suppose everyone who edits photographs or makes digital paintings has these same goals, but I never articulated them for myself until recently I realized that 'something' was wrong with the colors I was seeing on my monitor. Images that display on the monitor with colors and tonality suitable for soft proofing to a printer.

Minimal or preferably no color casts up and down the gray axis.

'Monitor white' (color temperature) that isn't green or magenta.

Tonality that drops from monitor white to monitor black in a perceptually uniform manner.

My goals when calibrating and profiling my monitor are: When calibrating and profiling your monitor, it's important to consider exactly what your goals are, vs what the monitor and graphics card can actually accomplish. Goals when calibrating and profiling your monitor, vs what the monitor and graphics card can actually accomplish Goals

Test images for evaluating monitor profiles.

Making a calibration file and using it to profile the monitor.

Changing the monitor's 'color of white'.

Introduction: Goals when calibrating and profiling your monitor, vs what the monitor and graphics card can actually accomplish.

Displaycal black point correction