Colour Calibration
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Out of an office of 70+ people we calibrate 2 or three monitors (mine and my colleague's). The architects don't care - they all run with 100% brightness and 4% contrast and it drives me bananas, like looking at a lightbox.
We have an i1 which is sweet but the 3D/graphic bods now run with Eizo monitors with an integrated calibration unit - every 50 hours or so a small sensor slides from the bezel and does an update check. We also have 2 plotters, one of which is specifically for our picture work that has been calibrated for different types of paper. Works out pretty well overall.
Worst of the lot are the colour copiers - they print with a magenta cast to make the blacks blacker - thin lines on drawings show up better. Fucking architects. Trouble is it fucks with everything else, everything turns magenta if you don't manually adjust the ink balance beforehand and because we can't get a RIP for these copiers the settings can't be locked into the copiers themselves. Causes no end of crying and gurning, which is funny from people who can design an office block in Archicad but can't handle a few extra clicks in the printer software.