Digital BW, The Print

> From: James Irelan [mailto:james@...]
>
> There is a very fine line across the monitor that I have seen a number
> of times, in Photoshop, although writing this now, I don't see it.

Trinitron monitors have that. Small monitors have one, larger ones have two.
It's what keeps the shadow mask, which is a bunch of vertical wires, from
vibrating, and totally disrupting the color, at every little mechanical
bump.

> Lately the monitor has been flickering.  It is doing it now, and I have
> seen it using other apps like ProfileMaker.  It's as if it's going in
> and out of its profiled state or something.  Fortunately, I have not
> seen it using Photoshop.  If I did, the monitor would be unusable.

Do you mean an irregular flickering, like a candle, as though there were a
loose connection, or a steady flickering that you can see especially out of
the corner of your eye? If the former, make sure your video cable is in good
shape--disconnect and reconnect it a couple of times to make sure there's no
gunk on the contacts. If the latter, see if you can up the scan rate.

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Ciao,               Paul D. DeRocco
Paul                mailto:pderocco@...