Digital BW, The Print

Had to jump in here. I've a Mac dual 2.7 with a dual head video card (ATI
Radeon 9650) and it drives a 20 inch Cinema Display (1680x1050) for my tool
pallets and an EIZO CG-210 (21.3 inches, 1600x1200) for images. The EIZO is
a beauty, it rotates without need of additional software, although it does
like to be calibrated in each orientation for best results. The Mac is
running 10.4.8 and it selects the correct monitor profile upon rotation.

 

The EIZO has dual DVI inputs and one USB-2 input, which is how it
communicates with the Mac and my Monaco XR DTP 94 calibration puck and
ColorEyes software. It takes advantage of EIZO's 14 bit LUT (Look Up Table)
and uses DDC(?) or DCC(?) for automatic calibration. It also has a five (5)
year warranty, but it was "pricey" at $2600 from Integrated-Color. A better
EIZO (IMHO) is the CG-220N, which displays the full Adobe RGB color space
and is slightly larger (23 inches) but was nearly $6500 when I checked last
year! Too rich for my blood.

 

I also have a PC laptop with an NVIDIA GeForce Go 6800 video card that
drives the EIZO just not as well. On the PC, w/XP Pro, I do have to install
EIZO's Rotation Utility so it will display at the correct resolution when
vertical. The PC doesn't support the 14 bit LUT or the DDC (or DCC:-)) so
calibration is more difficult to nail down. The laptop has a resolution of
1680x1050, just like the Apple Cinema display but it's 17 inches. I guess a
20 inch laptop would be pretty darn heavy!!

 

Anyway, my point is that everyone from EIZO to Integrated-Color has told me
that I'd need 2 video cards to get the best results on my PC, that's not
possible (I don't think) for a laptop, but Apples been using dual head video
cards on their better machines for years. And I hear that the new MacBookPro
you're talking about getting will have a real video card, not integrated on
the motherboard?

 

Good luck, Alan

 

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From: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Sam
McCandless
Sent: Monday, December 18, 2006 11:04 AM
To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Finally got my printer, now questions about
monitors

 

On Dec 18, 2006, at 9:43 AM, jerry dungan wrote:

> I've been searching back through to October 2004 regarding monitors 
> as it is finally time for me to move on to a new one and came 
> across my very type of question from your posting about a year ago. 
> What monitor/video card did you finally acquire if I may ask?

None yet, Jerry; I decided to upgrade to the next (late-winter/spring 
I hear) 17-inch MacBookPro notebook as a desktop replacement and 
(necessarily) just live with whatever video card Apple puts in it. 
I'm also going to try to live with its screen as a "palette monitor".

> And any recommendations for either a CRT or LCD for Windows. My 
> perference is for a CRT, but with the obvious dwindling number of 
> choices there, an LCD would be Plan B.

No specific recommendations, but, although I feel the same way as 
you, I don't think it's practical to try to continue with a new CRT. 
So I'm looking for a good-to-excellent 19-inch 1280x1024 LCD which I 
can rotate on a Mac. I think the NEC MultiSync LCD1990SXi might be 
the best one short of an EIZO. About $715 at SmallDog.com? 



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