Digital BW, The Print

Jack writes:

> On every CTR monitor any resolution you chose in
> the driver will fit the screen, no matter if it's
> in the screen proportions or not.

Most screen resolutions produce square pixels if the display aspect ratio is
4:3 (the usual case).  There are a few exceptions, the most notable of which
is 1280x1024.

> I like the resolution of 1280x1024 on my LaCie 19"
> electron blue IV. To have the square images
> appear square on the screen I had to adjust the
> horizontal dimension of the display resulting with
> about half an inch black strips on both sides of
> the display.

That's about all you can do, if you really want to stay at that resolution.

> Flat panels work a bit different since the pixels are imposed by the
> hardware, so all the screens show the square images square.

Flat panels don't really know what the horizontal resolution is, if the
usual analog connection to the video card is used, so I don't see how they
can make any automatic adjustments.