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Section 3: Operation
3.9
Status Menu
The read-only Status menu lists a variety of details about the standard and optional components currently
installed in the projector. Refer to the Status menu for versions of hardware and software installed, the type
(size) of lamp defined in projector memory, its current, voltage and hours logged in total and for a specific
period (such as a rental period), and for your projector model name and serial number. In addition, the Status
menu identifies the current channel, its location, its frequencies and other details.
Scroll the full Status menu using the
3.10 Using Multiple Projectors
When an installation requires multiple projectors, you can use the RS-232 and/or RS-422 serial ports to daisy
chain the units together and control the group with a single keypad, remote or a computer/controller connected
to the first projector. In such a network, you can choose to broadcast commands to the entire group, or use the
key as desired to limit responses to an individual projector. Or you may prefer that each projector in an
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installation stands alone and responds only to a unique transmission protocol from its own remote.
Alternatively, you may want to add projectors to a hub on an Ethernet network. Refer to
Connecting Multiple Projectors
NOTE: Refer back to
information about communicating with multiple projectors.
3.10.1 Matching Colors In Multiple Screens
In a multiple-projector wall, you will likely want to precisely match color and intensity from image-to-image
so that the full wall is as uniform as possible. This matching is typically done in conjunction with brightness
uniformity and edge blending.
Preliminary Calibration
As a final part of the manufacturing process, all primary colors in the projector are precisely set to pre-
established values to ensure that overall color performance is optimized and is as accurate as possible (refer
back to
Figure
3-32). Upon installation at a site, however, lighting and other environmental factors may
slightly change how these colors appear on your screen. While the change is negligible in most cases, you may
prefer to recover the originally intended color performance before trying to match colors from several
projectors. Or you may be renting a projector in which the colors were changed for use at its previous site, but
are not ideal for yours.
The good first step in achieving such consistency is to use a color meter to measure the native primary colors
(red, green, blue, and white) as they appear at the screen and record these as Color Primary Settings in the
Service menu (password-protected) for each projector. On the basis of these new values, which are stored in
memory, each projector will then automatically calculate any necessary corrections to reproduce the original
factory colors under the current environmental conditions. This essentially calibrates a projector to its
surroundings, compensating for factors such as screen type; lamp and/or ambient lighting that can alter the
final color characteristics on-screen, and will improve color accuracy and consistency in a group of projectors.
It ensures a good starting point for further customizing and matching.
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