A day later than I hoped for, but thats the norm with delivery up here.
Having now profiled my laptop screen, it is
realy obvious why the pictures looked dark and oversaturated elsewhere. Some of the images that I previously had lab printed and hated, are now almost matched by what is displayed on screen
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The ColourMunki software instalation was easy, with no snags on Win7. Starting the software and connecting the device pulled up the registration page, which only took a minute to sort. First off, I profiled the monitor in easy mode and can say that the ColourMunki is easy to use. Just follow the onscreen prompts, doing what is shown and two minutes later, the profile is saved and set as the default
Afterwards, I also tried the advanced mode, which has user inputs for limonosity brightnes and contrast. I skiped the contrast setting, but actualy had to increase the screen brightness from the minimum setting. The end result looked quite close to the easy mode but only took a few seconds more.
Set up and instalation of the printer software for the 9500 was painless too, and quite quick compared to HP (HP should stick to making sauce). Using the ColourMunki, setting a printer profile took a while, allowing 10 minutes drying time for the two test sheets... Even so, it still took less than 30 minutes from start to finish and, was just a case of following the onscreen prompts and doing what was asked. Theres even links to a relevant video clip if your not sure what is required for a step
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Using the above profiles, with the printer managing the colour, the first print from LR gave a print that I'm happy with at last. Now I need to read and re-read the manual about the best settings, for what handles the colour management :rules: