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Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 21:31:15 +0200
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Subject: Re: [colorhug-users] Bad experience
From: "Fred ." <eldman...@gmail.com>
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So ColorHug is basically useless and calibrates monitors to look worse
than when uncalibrated?

On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 7:03 PM, David Anderson <factu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Fred,
>
> I've had a Colorhug for several months that I've tried on several different
> computers (Windows and Ubuntu). I have yet to get a profile from it that
> doesn't have an obvious color cast. I used the LiveCD to generate my
> profiles. If you look at the archives for this group, you'll see that is a
> consistent problem.  It's not your computer, per se, nor the distribution.
> The software that generates the color profile is close but not quite there.
>
> My colorhug is sitting in a drawer until I see a 'Eureka' post on this list
> that someone's figured out how to generate an accurate profile across all
> monitors. Obviously, the commercial vendors have figured it out. I hope one
> day some enthusiastic individual will figure it out for the colorhug.
>
> David
>
>
>
> On 10/24/2012 4:56 AM, Fred . wrote:
>>
>> Yes, but I wish I knew ahead of the purchase that color management in
>> Ubuntu was buggy.
>> Ubuntu being the most common distribution (not an esoteric
>> distribution nobody have heard of), I assumed it would work.
>>
>> There ought to be a list of distributions known to work, and
>> distributions which are known to not work.
>>
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