DisplayCAL - What is it, when might you use it?

In the Frame

Karen Standke

Posted: 6th June 2016

Karen Standke is our featured artist for June. Karen is a gifted oil painter who has a passion for painting remote landscapes, especially that of Central Australia where she was able to do an extended residency. She has since gone back time and time again. Karen has been exhibiting for over 12 years and during this time has received many awards.

As well as her original art works, Karen also produces limited edition fine art prints on Hahnemühle Photo Rag, which opens her work up to a bigger audience. We currently have the pleasure of having five of these beautiful prints hung in our office as part of our featured artist series

Knowledge Category

DisplayCAL, by Florian Höch, is based on the excellent ArgyllCMS open source calibration software (developer Graeme Gill - a Melbourne local!).

It is free, and quite simply one of the best open source software packages I've seen. It can be used as an adjunct to, or replacement for, the vendor supplied calibration software.

It is an excellent, thoroughly documented piece of software that is of interest to anyone with a monitor calibration device. It is vastly more feature filled than the software that comes with most calibration devices, and well worth exploring if you want to go beyond the software that comes with your calibrator.

In addition, DisplayCAL supplies its own (very stable) drivers for devices, which means it can do at least three amazing things:

Enable you to continue to use a calibrator where the maker of it has stopped supporting the device (e.g. with the latest operating system versions)
Enable you to use the more expensive features of calibrators that are reduced, software limited versions (e.g. use all the features of a Spyder5Elite when you only bought the Spyder5Express)
Enable you to use re-badged devices as OEM devices (i.e. remove the Eizo only limitation of the Eizo EX3 and use it as a gull Spyder5 device with any monitor)

DisplayCAL Downloads and Documentation

Colour Management & Lighting

..congrats again for one of the best sites out there for photographic information & appealing layout - makes you want to roam the site to learn more.

- Alan K -