mac Pro display contrast too high

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mac Pro display contrast too high

I recently moved to a 2.66 ghz Mac Pro from a G5 and am finding that when I use the Display Pref's calibration settings my La Cie photon20vision display is way too contrasty. On my G5 it worked fine and the contrast was fine. I started as the Disply Pref's instruct by setting the contrast to 100% and continuing as I have numerous times before. For some reason the calibration seems skewed to be way too contrasty. I sent a photo done on my monitor and sent it to someone and they asked what was wrong as everything was so washed out and flat on their monitor.... on mine it looked fine

MacBook Pro & G5 & iMac

Posted on Apr 30, 2014 1:16 PM

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Answer 1

The hatter

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Apr 30, 2014 1:50 PM in response to cutterandbanger__

What graphic card? when you say Mac Pro, have to ask is it 1,1 2006 dual/dual-core or a 2009 4,1? and what OS is it now running.

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Answer 2

Apr 30, 2014 5:38 PM in response to cutterandbanger__

Make sure the "Increase Contrast" slider in "Universal Access" or "Accessibility" system preference is all the way to the left (Normal).

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Answer 3

May 1, 2014 9:34 AM in response to The hatter

Hi, my info is below- I'm running Snow Leopard 10.6.8

Graphic card:

Chipset Model: NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT

Type: GPU

Bus: PCIe

Slot: Slot-1

PCIe Lane Width: x16

VRAM (Total): 256 MB

Vendor: NVIDIA (0x10de)

Device ID: 0x0393

Revision ID: 0x00a1

ROM Revision: 3004

Model Name: Mac Pro

Model Identifier: MacPro1,1

Processor Name: Dual-Core Intel Xeon

Processor Speed: 2.66 GHz

Number Of Processors: 2

Total Number Of Cores: 4

L2 Cache (per processor): 4 MB

Memory: 3 GB

Bus Speed: 1.33 GHz

Boot ROM Version: MP11.005C.B08

SMC Version (system): 1.7f10

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Answer 4

May 1, 2014 9:35 AM in response to Malcolm J. Rayfield

Did that thanks. It was set as it should be.

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Answer 5

AMP829

Level 1

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Feb 9, 2016 8:20 AM in response to Malcolm J. Rayfield

you r right thank's a lot !

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Answer 6

Feb 9, 2016 8:18 AM in response to AMP829

It is found in System Preferences.

Depending on the version of Mac OS X its name varies from random combinations of words like "Universal Access" and "Accessibility"

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