ZDNet UK Products 21in. Monitors Comparative Review 21in. If you create colour documents, then you've probably been frustrated by the fact that what you see on the screen rarely matches what you get out of your printer.
Colours often look different, and greys too light or too dark.
The physical characteristics of a monitor have a great effect on displayed colour. Different monitors will have slightly differently coloured red, green and blue phosphors in the display. ICM, the CMS within Windows 95, uses these profiles to assist in colour matching with other devices such as printers and scanners, which often come with similar profile information. However, displayed colours vary between monitors of the same model, and a generic ICC profile won't get you close enough to consistent colour. And there's nothing to take external variables, such as room lighting, brightness settings and varying video card outputs, into account.