{"id":7116,"date":"2023-01-10T15:32:25","date_gmt":"2023-01-10T15:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/54.200.81.140\/?p=7116"},"modified":"2023-01-10T15:32:25","modified_gmt":"2023-01-10T15:32:25","slug":"how-long-should-my-screen-be-on-before-calibration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/truhu.app\/blog\/how-long-should-my-screen-be-on-before-calibration\/","title":{"rendered":"How Long Should My Screen Be On Before Calibration?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Like with many things in life, the answer is \u201cIt Depends\u201d.  In this case, it depends on two factors \u2013 what kind of display technology your monitor is using and how color-critical your tolerances are.  Older technologies like CCFL, will move pretty dramatically during a warm up period, and it\u2019s advised to let them warm up for ~30 minutes prior to calibration.  More modern displays use WLED backlight and warm up faster, so it\u2019s really a matter of your personal preference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have a consumer grade BenQ GW2780 (~$150) purchased in 2022. And I have a tool that allows me to measure my screen\u2019s color temperature and luminance with a spectrophotometer, so I decided to measure how my screen changed over the course of an hour after being turned on.   Not surprisingly, the color temp moved a bit, cooling off, during the first few minutes of operation, and then the change settled down to a pretty linear relationship with time, starting to decelerate during minutes 30-60.  After an hour, it was pretty stable.  100K of movement can roughly be approximated to 1 \u2206E (2000<\/a>) of color difference, about the minimum amount detectable by the human eye.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So, to get back to the original question, if you are highly color-critical and your tolerances are in the 1 \u2206E range, then you may want to let your screen warm up 30-60 minutes prior to calibrating.  If you are more of a \u201cregular\u201d person, with a 2 \u2206E tolerance, then you\u2019d be fine calibrating after the screen is on for just a few minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How much should you keep your screen on before you calibrate it? Like many things in life, the answer is “it depends” – but let me explain exactly why.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7199,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[14,15],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":6}},"aioseo_notices":[],"modified_by":"TruHu","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/truhu.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7116"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/truhu.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/truhu.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/truhu.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/truhu.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/truhu.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/truhu.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/truhu.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/truhu.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/truhu.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}