Roma,
What about your graphics card driver, check that for updates too. There seems to be something strange going on and I wonder if it is with the graphics card.
Alternatively there is a fault with the monitor; it should not be as difficult this.
Some observations/comments:
Contrast 100%, why so high? Ignore the software recommendation to set to 100% and leave at factory setting, around 50% I assume, like in the article. You will find that the software will accept that and no contrast adjustments are required.
The minimum luminance values on the results are high; I would expect values of less than 0.5, probably around 0.2 CD/M2. The poor result is possibly related to the high contrast setting.
You must use the custom mode for calibration, the other pre-sets are what they say and will override the monitor settings.
Is there anything else that could affect the brightness setting like an automatic adjustment for ambient light? If there is it must be turned off for calibration.
That's as much as I can think of at present.
Terry.

Hello,

Thank you, Terry and Chas, for your comments. One thing I have changed - I REMOVED the ambient light attachment. I know it sounds silly, but I listened to a salesman who left it on when he arranged the product demonstation. I have read a lot today and even in the one-page instruction, which came with the unit, they said to remove it!

OK. I redone my calibrations (sorry, Chas, I read your message after I finished). Before I began, I noticed GENERAL OPTIONS screen (image is attached). This option has never been explained anywhere. Which options do I have to use? I have tried both - for small display (image is attached) and for Large display. This was done in Native White colour mode.
In all calibrations, when I followed the instructions and set up Contrast to 100, after calibration it went down to 63-64. However, my brightness from 0 did not move anywhere as after the constract calibration it stayed too high at 136-142. Certainly, the final result - luminance was too high - about 140. This is in the Standard mode with final contract at 63% and Brightness at 0%.

I also calibrated at 6500K. Before the calibration I switched to Colour Mode and made sure that the colours were set at the default setting 50-50-50. This time contrast from 100% did not move anywhere and  stayed right in the middle. Colour calibration was fairly good, the final RGB setting is 64-54-58. They were not perfect but very close to it. Calibration of Brightness was good and it produced 120 easily at 56%.
The final report was fairly good (attached).

When I am using this setting right now, I see that the screen is a bit pink. Certainly 100 Contrast is strange, but Colour Mode is not bright to start with. Perhaps low default setting (50-50-50) is responsible for it. Visualy I would not be happy with the calibration as the colour of the screen is pink instead of white and the brightness affects my eyes.

I will try a calibration at 30-50 Brightness/Constrast. However, if this parameters should not be calibrated, how do we know that they are right? Why not 40-60? From the review referred by Terry one can see that the calibration was successful producing 30-50, but not in my case.

Any comments would be greatly appreciated.
Roma

Yeah... I actually owned and used an iOne Display 2 for a while before I sold it to buy my DTP-94 puck.  All these mainstream monitor calibration packages are very much alike, differing mainly in their GUIs.

A little afterthought inspired by a discussion I read on another forum.  Regarding Contrast settings... when these calibration devices instruct you to set monitor Contrast to 100%, that should should NOT be taken literally.  The INTENT is 100% of the factory default value, which may be 100%, 75%, 50%, or whatever.  On my personal monitor, that setting is 75%, so I keep Contrast at full factory setting-- 75%.  Even 1% higher than this starts to clip highlight tones.

I still own, use, and love the 2209WA for what it is:  A great value in an ENTRY LEVEL photo editing monitor.  If you're making your living from photography, or plan to, I would think you'd want to invest in more professional equipment.  On another forum I contribute to, I'm always amused by members who list their other equipment-- tens of thousands of dollars/euros in lenses and camera bodies, but edit photos with the cheapest quality monitors.

Adam,

I have a U2410 at work that I will be using for editing videos.  I currently have it set to the Adobe RGB setting in the menu.  It's supposedly been factory-calibrated, but I'm wondering whether your calibration with CM results in a noticable difference.  I have a CM at home (I love it too) and wonder if it will make a difference in the accuracy of the U2410.

Thanks

Hello Adam,

Perhaps I was not lucky with the U2410 as my calibratration was not good as I explained in my previous posts. I can see you sucessfully calibrated it in the Standard mode and reached 30 and 50 for brightness and contrast.
For your calibration you used CM, however, I could not find information on the net. Could you please provide more information so I could read about it? I am still thinking if EyeOne 2 is good for me, as I have read about dpt-94 which is a good product as many reported. However, it is sold with various software, what is confusing.

Please let me know what you think.
Best,

Roma

Hello Chas,

I can see it now. Thank you for clarifying this point. I believe when a monitor gets old, these settings must be changed. There is so much to try out, as the standard software and recommendations do not always work. What is CM? Just wonder.

I am now waiting for DELL to put 2209WA monitor on sale. In the meantime I have noticed that NEC is selling refurbished LCD2690WUXi-2 for a very attractive price ($749 USD). I have read reviews and they are very good.
http://www.necdisplay.com/Products/Product/?product=02e0c734-0bbf-4b25-bb28-03d1e7f855cd

I do not do professional photography, but I would like to have a monitor I can trust in terms of colour reproduction. Should be good for wrokign with text too though.
Thank you!

Roma