Calibrating the monitors

Ideally, all monitors should have the same brightness, contrast and color temperature. There are 3 ways to calibrate a monitor:

Using monitor controls
All monitors have controls to adjust brightness and contrast, some also let you adjust colors. You can access the controls through buttons on the monitor or an on-screen menu.

Using monitor calibration features of the display driver
Most display drivers provided by the card or chipset manufacturer let you adjust brightness, contrast and color. To adjust these settings, open Display Properties, go to the monitor's advanced settings and look for an appropriately named tab.

Using special software
There are several tools available for monitor calibration, one that is readily available for download is PowerStrip. The advantage of a tool like this is that you can adjust all monitors from a single location, and you can create different monitor profiles, for example a brighter one for use at day, and a second for use at night.
For solid and repeatable results, a colorimeter (a tool to measure the display characteristics of a monitor) is recommended. The following packages include a colorimeter and calibration software: Spyder, ColorBlind Prove it!.

If you don't have a colorimeter, you can use a color chart to help with calibrating the monitors. See Star Systems' web page on color calibration for various charts and more information on the topic.

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