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draggin
May-08-2008, 10:55 AM
Does anybody know of any Linux software that will do screen calibration?? Everything I have found requires Windows

Tim
SloYerRoll
May-08-2008, 11:38 AM
What flavor of Linux?

Here's a decent article. Make sure to read the comments. Some comments are actually better than the article itself.
http://www.linux.com/articles/113936
draggin
May-08-2008, 12:07 PM
Well the distro I am using is debian based (Mepis7), but if it comes as a tarball it should not matter.

DO you know how accurate the article is as it is 3 year old and is written about CRT as opposed to TFT which is the norm now a days (i'm still reading it).

Tim
SloYerRoll
May-08-2008, 03:09 PM
No, not sure of it's accuracy. It was the first relevant Google hit and seemed to be a step in the right direction.
nmh
May-11-2008, 03:52 AM
Does anybody know of any Linux software that will do screen calibration?? Everything I have found requires Windows

Tim

I suggest you check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_color_management.
It has references to LittleCms (http://littlecms.com/) and Argyll (http://www.argyllcms.com/).
Entropy512
May-11-2008, 09:19 PM
I use the latest Argyll beta with a Huey, it works very well.

Not so sure about "poor man's" printer calibration (calibrate scanner with a Wolf Faust test target, then calibrate printer using the scanner to read back a printed test target) via Argyll. I have yet to get decent results with my Epson RX595 and Gutenprint, but I may be applying the profiles wrong. When unprofiled, Gutenprint always makes prints WAY too dark.