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Anonymous
Few things. CRT is the only thing right now that can be truly color calibrated. Trinitron monitors are especially nice for even color (although the lines piss most people off) LCD's can be adjusted, but not truly calibrated since they generally only offer limited incriments, and even nice onces can't reproduce all the colors of your CRT's. They do get close though, so if your eyes aren't that color sensitive and you don't have a woman or gay man for a client, a nice LCD is passable. Remember, you need to calibrate for your whole work flow. Calibrate your monitor AND set up a profile for whatever printer it goes to so what you see is what you get. If you happen to be gay (or a woman), you can do it by eye alone without any hardware. There are lots of freebies (use google) or the little nvidia thinggy. It is NOT under color calibration. It is under nvidia control pannel > run display optimization wizzard .
Apple has much better (as long as your desktop background is 20%grey) and simpler software built in with native color profiles which is one reason graphic designers love to hump macs.
PS. For true color work, half hour warm up on CRTs
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