Visual-Q

If you ever notice light colours being blasted out or that your monitor is too bright or contrasty check that universal access "enhance contrast" is set to normal. Any setting other than normal will override any display settings and calibrations without making it obvious why it's happening.

THE DANGER: The keyboard shortcut to change this setting is almost the same as indesign's type size shortcut which makes it very easy to do accidentally. You should disable it in the keyboard pane.

This caused me fits until I just figured it out so I though I'd pass it along.

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mguertin

Good tip!

MacDoc

+1 - did not even know it existed.
We do get the occasional call about the zoom being invoked.

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mguertin

Yep the "when I move my mouse the whole screen wiggled around" ...

The strangest one I ever saw was someone complained about a "rolling counter" style set of numbers on their desktop every time they rebooted their machine -- picture and old style odometer spinning really fast. Sure enough after arriving she rebooted and there it was.

It turned out to be thousands of folders, with damaged folder icons (I.e. No icon) all named 0001, 0002, 0003 ... Sitting on top of each other in the exact same spot on an OS8 desktop. They were the byproduct of a buggy printer driver and a new one happened each time the desktop was polled by the os ... Seemed to be something to do with the desktop printer icon too ...

Strange to see it in action. You couldn't do anything until it stopped either, it locked out the whole desktop unit it finished drawing, and you couldn't have made a more perfect effect of it if you tried to build one in after effects...

Visual-Q

I'm surprised this problem hasn't surfaced frequently before...

At a studio I do work at we have a NEC2690 with Spectrometer and Hardware calibration, the whole bit, and it's been completely screwed forever, and nobody from NEC, to our IT guy, to all the fairly experienced Mac guys around the office had a clue what was wrong.

I found it today on my imac when I was setting up some custom keyboard shortcuts in Indesign and suddenly my monitor got brighter. Called the studio told them to check it out and Low and Behold the "Enhance contrast" was dialed up a notch.

A truly evil shortcut/setting for graphics/prepress guys... it should be disabled at all cost!

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ehMax

Or the inverted screen where everything looks like an X-ray.

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