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It's such a huge difference that it's a bit hard to believe. The inner gamut is a DLP projector and the much larger outer gamut is a 3 LCD projector. On the right are the gamut volumes for two projectors. Use that setting as you profile the projector. If you are reading CHROMiX ColorNews, and wanting to calibrate a projector, my guess is that color is a big part of your life or work and you will want to use one of these 'movie' modes to get a good range of colors on the screen. By our calculations, the gamut volume of the projector can drop by as much as 70% depending on these settings.

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With some technologies, like DLP projectors, this trade-off can be quite extreme: The highest-gamut Movie setting will project a rather dark image, while the 'bright' settings will be washed out - devoid of saturation in the colors. The 'Movie', 'Theater', 'Cinema' or 'Film' mode will give you the maximum color saturation (maximum gamut), while settings like 'PC', 'Gaming', or 'sRGB' will tend to give you less saturation, but oftentimes be brighter. Common names for these are 'Presentation,' 'Theater' or 'PC'. While it's warming up, check to see if your projector has preset 'color' modes in the setup menus. Ideally you will do your profiling on the same screen as you'll be using for presenting, since the screen color is a part of the overall color of the system. Still, we've had customers use colorimeters effectively to profile projectors.Д«efore profiling, allow the projector to warm up for at least 10 minutes.

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There's no real procedure for how to do this though - and you're on your own for figuring out how to arrange your instrument to pick up the color off your screen.

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ColorEyes Display Pro provides a checkbox that allows the measurement window to expand to full screen, making a bigger target to aim your colorimeter to.

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Some monitor profiling software packages like the Spyder 3 Elite have a procedure for using a colorimeter to measure color off of a projected screen. Before the Munki came along, it was about the only way to profile a projector. By itself, it would be a rather expensive solution, but if you already have the i1Pro device, it is not much to add the Beamer upgrade. The i1Beamer is a module that is available for the i1Pro spectrophotometer. The ColorMunki Photo and Design are relatively affordable and easy to use. Several software packages allow you to calibrate a projector.

DLP projectors have a huge trade-off between broad color gamut and brightness.

You can observe this just waving your hand across the screen.

With true DLP projectors, you can see a 'rainbow effect' when images move across the screen rapidly.

DLP projectors may have a number of advantages (and disadvantages) that have nothing to do with color, but we have found a couple of issues that should put these off your list if you are a color geek: If you are looking to purchase a digital projector, we recommend a model that utilizes the LCD chip technology over the DLP technology.

It is possible to get a more accurate profile by using a more advanced system designed for the video world, but that is beyond the scope of this article. This article will cover the basics of how to get a decent profile of a projector using any of the common display profiling packages. Now don't go emailing us to give you a recommendation - we are under a non-disclosure agreement for most of this information - but I can give you a few things to look for. We've tested and reviewed over two dozen different models and have learned quite a bit about color on a projector. This reserved article originally appeared in CHROMiX ColorNews Issue 44 on January 26, 2011.Д¬lick here to see the original in its original context.Д®mail colornews(at) to subscribe to the ColorNews newsletter.ДЄmong the many interesting projects to come through the offices of CHROMiX in recent years has been the testing, analysis and comparison between different brands and models of digital projectors.