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Color Control for a PC Monitor

Does anyone know how to adjust this color of a PC monitor? Is there a control panel or plug-in? Or does every PC monitor come with color controls via the knobs and buttons on the face of the monitor?

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May 30, 2001

On the PC, the colour control is usually part of the graphics card, not the monitor. Better monitors have the following settings:

Contrast,
Brightness
Red/Blue/Green Gain
Red/Blue/Green Bias

You can usually access them by hitting the "Menu" button on the front. If you don't have a menu button, your monitor probably doesn't have these features.

To change the settings via the graphics card, you might be able to right click on the desktop, go to settings, then advanced (On Win2k, others may be different). You can usually change your colour profiles from here under "colour management". Not that this is usually only available when you use OEM drivers, not the inbuilt windows one.

Finally, failing that, the last option is to tune your printer to match your screen - that way, it doesn't matter if the screen is biased, because you'll correct for that with your own eyes before you print :)

Hope this helps.

Kind regards,

Ken

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June 01, 2001