Life with the EliteBook: DreamColor Calibration

6 thoughts on “Life with the EliteBook: DreamColor Calibration”

    1. John Montgomery

      We’ll see with flare. But basically you’d calibrate the monitor to spec and go from there, yeah. The monitor wouldn’t change when booting into Linux I don’t think.

      But I’ll find out….

      1. We have tried to get the EliteBook 8740w with Dreamcolor display on Nvidia 5000M to work under linux and can not get the laptop display to work. The generic driver works fine but as soon as any Nvidia Linux driver loads (we have tried them all) the display goes dark

        An external monitor works fine but not the HP Dreamcolor panel

        Reports on the web report this issue with no fix so far

        Has anyone gotten this to work?

        We intended to use this for an Autodesk Flare

  1. Hi John,
    Nice article.
    I have this dreamcolor notebook. I have found the factory srgb mode clips white levels (the http://www.lagom.nl website, white saturation level test is a useful check), could you please check out whether after your recalibration with the profiling solution, the srgb displays black levels and white levels properly( all the square patches of the black level and white saturation tests should be visible ideally)
    If the HP profiler does a better job than the factory calibration i would be keen to buy it.
    Thanks in advance

  2. Hi John,
    did I understand correctly that with a calibrated monitor (and sRGB profile for web video work) I would deactivate color management in After Effects?
    Regards,
    Andreas

  3. Hi John,
    this was exactly the info I was looking for! Thanks!

    I have a Elitebook 8760w with a Dreamcolor Panel and MDA – does the HP Profiling Solution also work on this model?

    Regards,
    Chris

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