Macbook Pro/ 2nd monitor calibration

I just bought a Samsung 22" (225bw) to hook my Macbook pro to when I get home. The colors are off from my laptop screen. I was wondering if I purchase one of those calibrators, wont it adjust my laptop screen and not my 2nd one? Or is there a way to do both? Thanks

learjet035 wrote in post #2216699
I just bought a Samsung 22" (225bw) to hook my Macbook pro to when I get home. The colors are off from my laptop screen. I was wondering if I purchase one of those calibrators, wont it adjust my laptop screen and not my 2nd one? Or is there a way to do both? Thanks

I'm sure there's a way to do it; after all, Macs have natively supported second displays for years. Might be worth an email to Spyder or whichever company's product you're planning to use.

(BTW - my dad was an engineer on the Lear 35 design team.)

I don't know about on a mac, but I'd simply make the external my primary display and possibly even shut off the laptop display, and that way there's only one primary display to work with.

OT, but is that Bill Murray in your avatar? Sure looks like him.

Thanks guys, both good ideas. I'll let ya know my findings.
Tony- I bet your Dad's got some cool stories, I have a ton of time in that great old bird.
Ron- Yup- Steve Zizzou from the "life aquatic" funny/ strange movie. The pic just cracks me up for some reason.

learjet035 wrote in post #2217791
Tony- I bet your Dad's got some cool stories, I have a ton of time in that great old bird.

My favorite was when he got call from QC telling him three consecutive windshields failed the bird-impact tests (where they fire dead bird carcasses from a small gas-charged canon). Turns out a new guy was doing it that day. He failed to thaw the carcasses before firing at the windshields.

you can profile the second monitor, provided you get the appropriate version of the software. Spyder, for example, sells a few lower end versions which only let you do one monitor. and they have a higher end version which lets you profile multiple monitors.

btw you can easily create an .icm profile for each monitor it's just that the highend versions let you load it for both monitors. i'm loading each one on my pc but don't see an easy way to do it on the macs.

k, thanks, I'l look into that. It stinks I have to pay half the price of my monitor to get the colors right.... what the hell??

learjet035 wrote in post #2216699
I just bought a Samsung 22" (225bw) to hook my Macbook pro to when I get home. The colors are off from my laptop screen. I was wondering if I purchase one of those calibrators, wont it adjust my laptop screen and not my 2nd one? Or is there a way to do both? Thanks

It is quite easy. I expect you want the external monitor as your primary monitor and not just mirror your laptop?

In the monitor settings pull the menubar to the external monitor and start your calibrator software. It will then calibrate your ext. monitor and save the profile for it as the standard profile.
Then disconnect your ext monitor and calibrate your macbook.
It will then be saved as standard for that monitor.

HTH