LaCie blue eye pro User manual

LaCie blue eye pro Table of Contents
User Manual page 1
Table of Contents
1.Introduction to LaCie blue eye pro............................................................................ 5
2.Your LaCie blue eye pro ........................................................................................... 6
2.1. Minimum System Requirements ..................................................................................................... 6
2.2. Box Content ................................................................................................................................ 7
3.Color Management................................................................................................... 8
3.1. Basic Issues With Monitor Color Rendering..................................................................................... 8
3.2. Monitor Calibration And Device Profiles....................................................................................... 10
4.Installing Your LaCie blue eye pro.......................................................................... 13
4.1. Installing the Software................................................................................................................. 13
4.2. Connecting the LaCie blue eye Colorimeter ................................................................................. 14
4.3. Using Another Colorimeter ......................................................................................................... 15
5.Calibrating LaCie 300/500/700 Series Monitors..................................................... 16
5.1. Starting the Application............................................................................................................... 16
5.2. Calibrating your LaCie 300/500/700 Series Monitor.................................................................... 17
5.2.1. Setting Calibration Values for your LaCie 300/500/700 Series Monitor ............................... 17
5.2.2. Calibration and Profiling .................................................................................................. 18
5.2.3. Saving the Profile............................................................................................................. 19
5.3. Controlling the Calibration of Your LaCie 300/500/700 Series Monitor......................................... 20
5.3.1. Classic Test and Report .................................................................................................... 21
5.3.2. UGRA Display Analysis & Certification Tool Report ............................................................. 22
5.3.3. Saving the Calibration Report ........................................................................................... 23
5.3.4. The Calibration Report..................................................................................................... 23
5.4. Advanced Options ..................................................................................................................... 25
5.4.1. Optimize for Accuracy or for Speed................................................................................... 25
5.4.2. Blackpoint Adjustment Setting ........................................................................................... 25
5.4.3. Chromatic Adaptation Setting ........................................................................................... 25
5.4.4. Profile type...................................................................................................................... 25
5.4.5. Profile Version ................................................................................................................. 26
5.4.6. OSD lock........................................................................................................................ 26
5.4.7. ColorKeeper ................................................................................................................... 26
5.5. Switching Colorimetric Environments............................................................................................ 27
5.6. Using a Reference Profile for Easy Setup or Monitor Matching........................................................ 28
5.7. Analyzing Your Ambient Lighting Conditions................................................................................. 29
5.8. Fine Tuning your LaCie 300/500/700 Series Monitor ................................................................... 30
5.9. Accessing Key Monitor and System Information............................................................................. 31
6.Calibrating Other Monitors with the LaCie blue eye pro......................................... 32
6.1. Starting the Application............................................................................................................... 33
6.2. Calibrating your Monitor ............................................................................................................ 33
6.2.1. Setting Calibration Values for your Monitor........................................................................ 34
6.2.2. Brightness Adjustment ...................................................................................................... 35
6.2.3. Contrast Adjustment......................................................................................................... 36
6.2.4. White Point Adjustment .................................................................................................... 37
6.2.5. Creating A Profile with “Calibration” ................................................................................. 38
6.2.6. Saving The Profile ............................................................................................................ 38

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6.3. Controlling the Calibration of Your Monitor ................................................................................. 39
6.3.1. Calibration Report ........................................................................................................... 39
6.3.2. Test And Report ............................................................................................................... 39
7.Using Your LaCie blue eye pro with Windows ........................................................ 40
8.Troubleshooting ..................................................................................................... 41
9.Contacting Customer Support................................................................................. 43
9.1. LaCie Technical Support Contacts ............................................................................................... 44
10.Warranty Information........................................................................................... 45

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however, that interference will not occur
in a particular installation. If this equip-
ment does cause harmful interference to
radio or television reception, which can
be determined by turning the equipment
off and then on, the user is encouraged
to try to correct the interference by one
or more of the following measures:
1. Reorient or relocate the receiving
antenna
2. Increase the separation between the
equipment and the antenna
3. Connect the equipment into an out-
let on a circuit different from that to
which the receiver is connected
4. Consult the dealer or an experienced
TV/radio technician for help
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designed to provide reasonable protec-
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residential installation. This equipment
generates, uses, and can radiate radio
frequency energy and if not installed and
used in accordance with the instructions
may cause harmful interference to radio
communications. However, there is no
guarantee that interference will not occur
in a particular installation. If this equip-
ment does cause harmful interference to
radio or television reception, which can
be determined by turning the equipment
off and on, the user is encouraged to
try to correct the interference by one or
more of the following measures:
1. Reorient or relocate the receiving
antenna.
2. Increase the separation between the
equipment and receiver.
3. Connect the equipment into an out-
let on a circuit different from that to
which the receiver is connected.
4. Consult dealer or an experienced ra-
dio/ TV technician for help.
Changes or modifications not expressly
approved by the manufacturer could
void the authority of the user to operate
this equipment.
This device complies with Part 15 of the
FCC Rules. Operation is subject to the
following two conditions:
Tested to comply with
FCC standards for home
or office use
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ence received, including interference
that may cause undesired operation.
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LaCie blue eye pro Introduction
User Manual page 5
Thank you for purchasing LaCie blue eye pro, LaCie’s profes-
sional color management solution. The LaCie blue eye pro colo-
rimeter and LaCie blue eye pro software are a fast, precise, and
easy-to-use color management tool that will automatically cali-
brate your monitor and build the corresponding ICC profile.
This profile provides a description of the monitor’s individual
color characteristics, which helps imaging and page design soft-
ware such as Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom, Indesign, Illustrator,
Apple Aperture, and QuarkXPress, to display accurate colors.
Thanks to LaCie blue eye pro, Graphics Pros working in color-
managed environments are able to adjust every monitor in their
workflow, allowing them to perform image softproofing and edit-
ing in total confidence.
Throughout this User Manual, several ref-
erences are made to UGRA, the Swiss Cen-
ter of Competence for Media and Printing
Technology. Well known for its Mediawedge®, a standardised
control strip that is used for contract proofing control, UGRA has
extended this test to Monitor evaluation. For the first time, the
Proof Edition of LaCie blue eye pro embeds UGRA’s test ap-
proach and criteria, and makes it possible to certify a worksta-
tion for softproofing. To take advantage of this certification, se-
lect “UDACT” when using LaCie blue eye pro’s Test and Report
feature (please refer to section 5.3. for detailed instructions).
Click a topic:
✦Install your LaCie blue eye pro
✦Calibrate your LaCie 300/500/700 Series Monitor
✦Calibrate other monitors
Quick Links
Features
✦Automatic hardware calibration on all LaCie
300/500/700 series monitors with user-specified white
point temperature, gamma, and brightness settings
✦Advanced calibration options: reference profile match-
ing, blackpoint adjustment, and white point fine-tun-
ing
✦Monitor calibration and profile accuracy testing through
Test and Report function
✦Dynamic calibration switching through Select Profile
function
✦Ambient light measurement
✦Compatible with leading measurement devices
✦Integrate into Apple ColorSync and ICC-compatible
environments, such as Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom,
Indesign, and Illustrator, Apple Aperture, and QuarkX-
Press.
1. Introduction to LaCie blue eye pro

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2. Your LaCie blue eye pro
2.1. Minimum System Requirements
Windows Users
✦Windows 2000, XP, Vista
✦128MB RAM
✦Graphics board supporting DDC-CI
✦USB port
✦LaCie 300/500/700 Series monitor for automatic
calibration
Mac Users
✦Mac OS 10.3.9 or later on PowerPC or 10.4.5 or
later on Intel
✦128MB RAM
✦USB port
✦Graphics board supporting DDC-CI
✦LaCie 300/500/700 Series Monitor for automatic
calibration
IMPORTANT INFO: The LaCie blue eye pro is compatible
with the Intel Core processors.

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blue eye
2.2. Box Content
Your LaCie blue eye pro should include the following:
1. LaCie blue eye pro Colorimeter with Ambient light diffuser/
protective shell
2. Cable counterweight
3. LaCie Display Utilities CD-ROM (includes User Manual and
Calibration Software)
4. Quick Install Guide
IMPORTANT INFO: Please save your packaging. In the event
that the drive should need to be repaired or serviced, it must be
returned in its original packaging.
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3. Color Management
The digital age has brought about many important gains for
color-conscious professionals, whether they work in fields such
as graphic design, pre-press, video or digital photography. With
these improvements, however, new challenges arose.
One of those issues confronting professionals is the variability of
the reproduction of color from one monitor to another.
Every monitor has its own color characteristics. In order to ef-
fectively deal with this variability in monitor “personalities,” it’s
important to have a means of controlling, or managing, this
difference. The most effective color management solution for
monitors involves using a piece of hardware (the LaCie blue eye
Colorimeter) and software (LaCie blue eye pro PE) to adjust and
control the color among different monitors.
To implement color management, it is essential to properly cali-
brate and create custom, individual profiles for all your monitors.
Once a monitor has been calibrated and a profile has been cre-
ated, the profile then communicates with the operating system
and the application software to ensure that images are displayed
accurately.
This section will help to explain how color is created and how
LaCie blue eye pro utilizes calibration and profiles to help you
implement your color management solution.
3.1. Basic Issues With Monitor
Color Rendering
Human perception of color is the result of the addition by our
brain of the stimuli received from three types of nerve cells locat-
ed in our eyes that are sensitive to the red, green and blue areas
of the color spectrum. This is why the method used in a computer
monitor to reproduce color is for each pixel to be composed of
three dots that respectively emit red, green and blue light.
The Three Primaries – Red, Green And Blue
The intensity of the light emitted by the red, green and blue dot
in each pixel is set as a function of three values commonly called
R,G and B. The R, G and B of a given pixel can be set as any
integer value from 0 to 255.
✦A pixel set to R=255, G=255, B=0 has its red and green
dots emitting at maximum intensity and the blue dot not
emitting at all. The result is an intense yellow.
✦A pixel set to R=128, G=128, B=128 has its three dots
emitting red, green and blue lights at a medium intensity.
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RGB Values Are Device-Dependent
As we noted earlier, every monitor has its own individual settings
for reproducing the RGB, because monitor manufacturers make
very different choices as to the components that are used in their
monitors. This leads to very strong differences between the color
produced by any given RGB settings on separate monitors. Be-
sides the different components, there are also several reasons for
this variation. On a TFT, for instance, here are some of the most
important factors that come into consideration:
✦The color filters used to create the dots of each pixel
✦The nature of the backlights
✦The light transmittance characteristics of the liquid crystal
technology used in the display
✦The brightness, contrast and other settings used on the
monitor
✦The age of the monitor
With this in mind, moving back to our example about the RGB
setting to produce blue. We know that we’re getting the color
blue, but is the color of blue being displayed accurately? One
particular monitor could display the blue as akin to sky blue, an-
other as Navy Blue, and another as another shade of blue. And
this is the case for all colors, not just blue. Because the color that
is actually produced by a given RGB setting is not necessarily the
same from one monitor to another, color scientists say that RGB
values are device-dependent.
The Consequences Of Device Dependency
The direct consequence of this is that a given image (for instance
a digital photograph) will not necessarily appear the same on
two separate monitors. One may often observe color shifts, loss
of contrast or loss of detail.
As a result, considerable inefficiencies can appear in professional
workflows. When receiving a picture from its photographer, the
news agency may have the impression that some color correc-
tion needs to be performed on the photograph, even though it
may already have been done by the photographer before send-
ing the picture to the agency.
The same problem can occur when a printer receives digital art
included in their customer’s document. The colors displayed on
the printer’s monitor may not be identical to the ones displayed
at the customer site.
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3.2. Monitor Calibration And
Device Profiles
The LaCie blue eye pro implements a convenient solution to
these problems. It entails two steps:
Step 1: The monitor is set to a calibrated state that is described
in terms of its Brightness, Gamma and White Point Tempera-
ture. This allows the color-conscious professional to knowingly
choose the range of colors that will be displayed on the monitor;
and in particular to be certain that the colors displayed on the
monitor correspond to a standard environment.
Step 2: An ICC (International Color Consortium) monitor profile
is created and systematically embedded in the artwork produced
from the professional’s workstation. The ICC profile acts as a
translator between RGB values and absolute colorimetric mea-
surements that are expressed in a scientific color model such as
CIELAB or Yxy.
By taking into account the translation mechanisms contained in
the ICC profile, another computer monitor (or any other device,
such as a printer, for example) can reproduce the exact same
absolute colors even though its components, settings and aging
may be significantly different. The benefit is that both profession-
als see the same colors, and that there is no color shift across
the workflow.
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Monitor Calibration
The calibration process allows the professional to influence the
range of colors displayed. The main settings that influence the
range of colors displayed are the following:
The Gamma Curve (a) determines the characteristics of the ab-
solute colors associated with all the RGB values between the
white point and the black point. It expresses the intensity of the
light emitted by each of the RGB dots for each of the intermedi-
ary values between 0 and 255. The shape of the gamma curve
in particular determines the level of detail and contrast that are
displayed on the monitor. A practical way of describing this curve
is through the use of a numerical value that describes its slope.
The White Point (b), i.e. the characteristics of the color dis-
played by the RGB value: R=255, G=255, B=255. These
characteristics are often summarized with the term White Point
Temperature, because scientists have developed a model where
a given body brought to a certain temperature emits light of
a given color. This temperature is expressed in degrees Kelvin
(°K). Common White Point Temperature settings in the pre-press
workflow are 5000 K and 6500 K. To influence White Point
Temperature, it is necessary to adjust the respective intensities
(also called gains) of red, green and blue light that are emitted
by the RGB value of (255, 255,255).
The Luminance (c) controls the overall brightness of the moni-
tor.
With the LaCie blue eye pro, you can fine-tune all of these fac-
tors and target the Brightness, Gamma and White Point Tem-
perature settings of your choice. The sensor that is included is an
advanced device that measures the light emitted by your monitor
and expresses it in absolute colorimetric terms.
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Device Profiles
Device profiles are the most important part of the color manage-
ment puzzle, because without an ICC profile within your image
chain, you can’t implement color management. Profiles serve
three very important functions:
✦They describe what color the RGB pixel values actually rep-
resent.
✦They relate device-dependent RGB values to device inde-
pendent CIELAB/Yxy values.
✦They contain data to convert between the RGB value that
each device produces, and the CIELAB/Yxy number value.
TECHNICAL NOTE: CIELAB refers to the Commission Inter-
nationale de l’Eclairage, and L= the “lightness”; A= the posi-
tion of a color on a red-green axis; and B= the position of a
color on a yellow-blue axis. Yxy refers to a specification where
a color is specified by its x and y coordinates on a chromaticity
diagram graph.

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4. Installing Your LaCie blue eye pro
LaCie Color Utilities
4.1. Installing the Software
Mac Users
Insert the LaCie Color Utilities CD-ROM into your computer’s CD
or DVD drive. Once the disc appears on your desktop, double
click the disc icon to open the LaCie Color Utilities CD-ROM. A
pop up window will appear. Follow the on-screen instructions to
drag LaCie blue eye pro into your applications folder or other
location.
Windows Users
Insert the LaCie Color Utilities CD-ROM into your computer’s
CD or DVD drive. Follow the on-screen instructions to install the
software. Once installation is complete, go into Programs and
launch the LaCie blue eye pro software.

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4.2. Connecting the LaCie blue eye
Colorimeter
IMPORTANT INFO: Before connecting the LaCie blue eye
to your monitor:
✦Clean the monitor to remove fingerprints and dust.
✦Install the LaCie blue eye software (see section 4.1. Install-
ing the Software for more information)
1. Remove the LaCie blue eye colorimeter from the protective
shell by applying downward pressure on the protective shell,
while holding the LaCie blue eye colorimeter with your other
hand. You should hear a “click” noise whenever the LaCie
blue eye colorimeter is removed or placed in its protective
shell (figure A).
2. Incline the monitor by 10° (figure B).
3. With EasyHood installed, simply unfold the hook to attach
your calibrator. If no hood is installed, position the LaCie
blue eye colorimeter and cable counterweight. The LaCie
blue eye colorimeter should be flush against the monitor’s
screen (figure B).
4. Connect the LaCie blue eye colorimeter’s USB cable to an
available USB port on your computer (figure C).
TECHNICAL NOTE: You may attach the LaCie blue eye colo-
rimeter to powered USB hubs.
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4.3. Using Another Colorimeter
LaCie blue eye pro supports a variety of colorimeters, including
the following:
✦LaCie blue eye
✦Monaco Xrite DTP94
✦GretagMacBeth (now XRite) eyeOneDisplay v1 & v2, eye-
One Pro
✦ColorVision Spyder 2 & 3
The default device expected by LaCie blue eye pro is the LaC-
ie blue eye colorimeter. If you are using another colorimeter,
please select the appropriate device from the Device drop-down
menu to enable the application to detect it. If you are using a
GretagMacBeth eyeOne Display colorimeter please select the
blue eye device.

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5. Calibrating LaCie 300/500/700 Series Monitors
CAUTION: BEFORE BEGINNING
✦Make sure that your monitor has been powered on for
at least one hour. This ensures that the monitor has had
enough time to warm up and stabilize.
✦Disable any screen savers.
✦Delete or disable any competing profile programs you may
have installed. These programs could compete for control
of the display, and it is important that only one program is
running at a time.
✦If another profile program is installed and it has a startup
utility that is used at your computer’s boot time, this pro-
gram will need to be deleted.
✦Set up your work area as you will use it after calibrating and
profiling. Room lighting has an affect on the appearance of
screen images.
✦Tilt the monitor upwards 10° (with the axis measuring from
the horizontal length of the bottom of the monitor). This
helps to prevent unwanted light from affecting the results.
5.1. Starting the Application
Double-click on the LaCie Blue eye pro icon from your applica-
tions folder. The LaCie blue eye pro Main Menu will appear.
Button Description
Settings Click this option to set up your calibration
settings. See Chapter 5.2.1.for details.
Calibration Click this option to calibrate your moni-
tor. See Chapter 5.2.2. for details.
Test Report Click this option to evaluate the Calibra-
tion state of your monitor. See Chapter
5.3. for details.
Select Profile Click this option to switch from one
colorimetric environment to another (to
choose your colorimetric environment).
See Chapter 5.5. for details.
In this window you will find four buttons, each dedicated to a
specific use.

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5.2. Calibrating your LaCie
300/500/700 Series Monitor
If you are using LaCie Blue eye pro for the first time or if you want
to enter new calibration settings, you will first need to specify the
target values you want to adopt before calibrating your monitor.
From the Main Menu window, click on the Settings button to
open the Settings window.
5.2.1. Setting Calibration Values for your
LaCie 300/500/700 Series Monitor
The Settings window of the LaCie blue eye pro application in-
vites you to provide your target values for your monitor’s settings
of Gamma, White Point Temperature, and Luminance.
✦Gamma can be set at any value between 1 and 3 in 0.1
increments. Please choose the gamma value that corre-
sponds to your working environment.
✦White Point Temperature can be set either through a preset
value (From 5000 Kelvin to 9500 Kelvin in 500 K incre-
ments), or manually.
✦Luminance can be targeted as an absolute value in cd/m2
(candelas/meter2), or a predefined value expressed as a
portion of the maximum luminance offered by the moni-
tor. If you are not familiar with calibration and do not have
known pre-set values, you may simply use the settings con-
tained in the box at right.
General recommendations regarding settings
If you are not yet familiar with color management meth-
ods or with your workflow’s specifics, you may adopt the
following settings as general settings:
✦White point: 6500 Kelvin
This is close to the native white point of most LCD pan-
els and is a relatively neutral white (values below 5000K
tend to appear yellowish).
✦Brightness: 120 cd/m2
Under common office lighting conditions, a setting of
120 cd/m2 is sufficient. However, if you work in a dim
environment a lower luminance may be sufficient, and
if your office is very bright, or if you are using a lightbox
for critical color comparisons, a higher luminance may
be preferable.
✦Gamma: 2.2
This is also a good starting point for gamma. You may
want to compare the aspect of the same document with
gamma values of 1.8 and 2.2 to determine which is
preferable.
If your workflow relies on soft proofing
If your workflow relies on soft proofing, you may consid-
er following UGRA’s recommendation for calibration:
white point between 5600 and 6000K, gamma of 1.8
and luminance of at least 120 cd/m2. Also, make sure
that the type of profile selected in the Advanced Settings
window is “Matrix” (refer to section 5.4.4. Profile Type
for details).
If you use such settings, you will be able to evaluate your
monitor’s calibration against UGRA’s criteria by select-
ing the UGRA methodology in the “Test and Report”
feature of blue eye pro (see section 5.3.).

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Once you have selected the appropriate Calibration settings
you can immediately proceed to calibration by clicking the Cali-
bration button: for further instructions go directly to section 5.2
Calibrating your LaCie 300/500/700 Series Monitor. If you wish
to navigate to other options, click on the corresponding button.
Reference Profile: this is an alternative to the above Calibra-
tion Settings that can be used in situations where you want to
calibrate two monitors so they closely match.
In this situation, calibrate the first monitor and save its profile
normally. Then, calibrate the second monitor by using the first
profile as a reference. First, select the Reference Profile check-
box and click on the Select button. A popup window will appear,
allowing you to navigate to the appropriate folder where you can
select the profile to use as reference. Then, click the Calibration
button. For further information on this feature please refer to
section 5.6. of this manual.
If necessary you can access the Advanced options menu by
clicking on the advanced options button (refer to section 5.4.
Advanced Options for further information).
For further information on menus and options available in this
software refer to the table of content to find the related chapter.
5.2.2. Calibration and Profiling
The LaCie blue eye pro software creates a custom ICC Profile of
your monitor based on measures performed by the Lacie blue
eye colorimeter during the calibration process.
Position the LaCie blue eye application screen so that the white
disc is placed underneath the LaCie blue eye colorimeter, then
press the Start button to begin the calibration and profiling pro-
cess.
Your selected Target settings are displayed on the calibration
window during calibration process to remind you of the select-
ed values. You can stop the calibration process at any time by
pressing the Stop button. You can also go back to the Settings
or Main menu window by clicking the corresponding button. At
the end of the calibration process the Save Profile window will
appear.

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5.2.3. Saving the Profile
The Save Profile window will automatically appear at the end of
the Calibration process. In this window, you can simply choose
the default filename, or enter a custom filename for your profile
to be saved under.
The default profile filename contains the date of calibration, col-
or temperature, gamma and luminance settings. With this practi-
cal format you can easily remember, at a future date, when your
last calibration took place, and what the settings were.
Once you have chosen the profile’s filename, click on the Save
Profile button. This file is stored in the Home > Library >Col-
orSync profile folder.
In Windows 2000 and XP the file is stored in: C:/WINNT/Sys-
tem32/spool/DRIVERS/COLOR/
In VIsta the file is stored in the following path : C:/WINDOWS/
System32/spool/DRIVERS/COLOR/
Your new profile automatically becomes the current profile for
your monitor settings. After saving the profile you just created,
you can exit the application by clicking on the Quit button. You
also have the option of obtaining a detailed report regarding
your monitor’s calibration by clicking on the Test and Report
button (see 5.3.4. Calibration Report) or to go back to the main
menu by clicking on the Main menu button.

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5.3. Controlling the Calibration
of Your LaCie 300/500/700
Series Monitor
The Test and Report tool gives you the opportunity to verify the
accuracy of your monitor’s current profile settings for Gamma,
White Point, and Luminance by measuring and comparing them
to the actual monitor settings. Depending on the options that
you select, Test and Report will display a Monitor Report window
that contains:
✦Classic: A chromaticity diagram of your monitor’s current
Gamut as well as a diagram and numerical values repre-
senting the color discrepancies measured by the tool.
✦UDACT1Test & Uniformity: A certificate of conformity to
UGRA recommendations regarding soft proofing (“UGRA
certified” or “UGRA not certified”) In both cases a detailed
report can be saved for future reference. Clicking on the
Test and Report button opens a window. Place the calibra-
tor on the target and click on the Start button to launch the
test process: the colorimeter measures color patches of a
series of different colors: Shades of gray, Red, Green, Blue,
Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Pastel values to evaluate the
quality of the calibration by comparing measured values
with expected ones.
In case you selected the UDACT test, the UGRA/FOGRA Medi-
aWedge® colors are included in the test.
1UDACT stands for “UGRA Display Analysis and Certifi-
cation Tool”