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Calibration is something you need to do when it becomes critical or blatantly obvious that you need to change the way in which your workflow runs.

For example, the monitor screen image looks nothing like you remember when you took the picture or it appears on the camera screen and you can’t get the printer to get anywhere close to the image that you see on the monitor.

More normally it is when your images become colour critical for the likes of publication (at that point it’s how you make your living or get paid). You will know when the time is right, because it’s the whole workflow you must consider, not just the monitor screen.

Basically you want everything to be the same, that’s each component at each stage of the process, it’s worth the struggle sometimes in getting set up right, because it’s so so sweet when all is on song.

There a lots of good kit out there to almost automate this process for you, which ever you choose it must be done on a regular basis to get the full benefit of a calibrated system.