Application of Color Management to Display Devices

Color Management promises to achieve the same color display of an image on two or more different monitors just by using the appropriate ICC profiles. Tests at EMPA have shown that this goal is not easily achieved. As with any other device, which will be characterized with ICC profiles, the monitor must first be calibrated. Monitor calibration is not an easy task. As a result, the main objective of this paper is to shed some light on the issue of monitor calibration. This paper discusses only CRT's (Cathode Ray Tubes) because at the moment no calibration tools (measuring devices together with software) for LCD's (Liquid Crystal Display) are available.