Calibrating a monitor on an OLD operating system

[drpablo]

I'm buying a Howtek 4500 drum scanner, which comes with a Powermac G3 workstation. I need to buy a monitor for the computer and calibrate it. I'm assuming it runs OS 9.x, with which my Spyder 3 is incompatible (as is the Spyder 2).

Any idea how to go about this?

[Greg Davis]

You could upgrade the OS to 10.3 or 10.4, which would allow you to calibrate the monitor with what you have, and still allow you to run OS 9 programs to scan with. OSX 10.5 does not allow OS 9 programs to run.

[drpablo]

What about calibrating the monitor on a different computer, then transferring the ICC profile over?

[Ben Altman]

Check the ScanHiEnd Yahoo group. Someone there will know for sure.

[Greg Davis]

Theoretically it should work. I don't know if the OS or software actually influence the colors on the monitor. If they don't, and I don't believe they do, then calibrating the same monitor on a different system should be fine as long as you properly import and apply the calibrated profile. Try it and see.

[drpablo]

Thanks. The trick is figuring out how to identify the profile on one computer, then figuring out where to put it on the mac (I haven't used a mac in a LOOONG time).