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I own the CG221 and am very happy with it.

It calibrates very well and shows great colors and luminosity evenness.
 
Very helpful. I am thinking about upgrading to Leopard, but am waiting until compatibility issues are resolved. My Epson 7600 driver, for example. Now I have another one to watch out for.
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This is a fantastic monitor, sharp, even illumination, wide gamut colors and a very wide viewing angle. Warning, does not calibrate if you use sRGB mode, but I have to wonder why you would spend this much on a monitor and cripple it with sRGB.

It matches my printer very well other than being a bit brighter, as I think is the nature of the different mediums. I expect it will be even better when I upgrade computers next year and obtain Spectravison for my calibration.

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Ben
 
The good news regarding the switch from Tiger to Leopard (providing you backed up your previous user profile) was that my existing Eizo profile was imported into Leopard along with all my other user settings via Migration Assistant.

You'll also find that you will have to profile your monitor less frequently, as the Eizos are very consistent and don't degrade over time. With my last monitor (LaCie), there was always a visible color shift of some sort when you toggled between the older and newer ICC profiles, where with the Eizos, I have never seen a visible difference, thus I'm calibrating less frequently these days.

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I use the Dell 2407 WFP.

Very high ratings from photo magazines in tests here in France.

The pro would certainly go with Eizo or another competitor but the Dell offers great value and a very acceptable solution for the serious amateur.

Mark

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DAJr said:
Monitor Perfection...
http://www.eizo.com/products/graphics/ce240w/index.asp

The only caveat I would mention is, if like me, you're on the Mac
platform, the ColorNavigator CE Calibration software (also the best)
does not yet run under 10.5 Leopard. If you're running 10.4 Tiger -
not an issue. I have contacted Eizo, and have been told they are
working on it.

It appears from Eizo's website that ColorNavigator will run on
XP/Vista...

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Another vote for this monitor! I had gone through the Apple 23" Cinema display (which was horrible IMO) to a Dell 2407WFP-HC. The Dell was alright, but I despised the fact that it was wide gamut (which sucked for my work, as I could never seem to get it calibrated correctly).

Finally picked up the EIZO CE240W and the Apple and Dell ones are not even in the same league! The EIZO is so much more crisper and sharper then the other two, and it is nuts on color accurate. I did not think a LCD monitor could be so color accurate, crisp, clear and look so good until I got the EIZO.

The Dell 2407WFP-HC (and non-HC versions) are alright and offer an awesome "best bang for the buck". Though side by side against the EIZO, the Dell appears somewhat blurry, washed out and off color. It not that the Dell is that bad, its just that the EIZO is that good.

Though the proce for the EIZO is its only draw back. I could have gotten 2 Dell 2407WFP's for the price I paid for a single CE240W. IMO, it was worth it though.
 
currently my laptop screen.. 16" fujitsu.. it's 1600x1200 and calibrated.. so it will have to do.
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The card I have is a dual/dual head and can drive 2 30" displays. Beyond that one need, the connectors are standard DVI. It has built in powered USB and FW hub.

Steven
dafed said:
Stephen hi, can you use the ACD attached to a P.C and is it a simple
matter of calibration, i have been looking for a new monitor for a
while now, but there does not seem to be a concensus on what is a
good easy to calibrate monitor for photo-editing work .

I am using a Lacie electron22 blue 1V but am finding it a bit on the
small side, I have looked at the ACD screen and boy does it look
good, but the salesman can't answer my question re calibration and
photo-editing on a P.C.

Any help you or anyone on this forum would be a hige help.

Cheers

david
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I have an ACD (the small one 20"?) and am a bit frustrated by it.

Besides being too contrasty, it's also too sharp. I also find that the brightness is too bright even at the lowest setting.

I have to calibrate my monitor...wonder how it will affect the things I am having issues with though (overly contrasty, overly sharp looking, brightness).

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First of all the EIZO CG241W is an excellent Monitor, but includes only 96% Adobe RGB. The deep blue for example is not able to be displyed. The only one who can display 100% Adobe RGB color space is the EIZO CG221 (22').

But don't forget about the missing cyan of those monitors (Adobe RGB does not include 100% cyan - which is important for well saturated skies, water and so on) for offset and fine art printers.

That was the reason for my advertising agency to buy a QUATO intelliproof 260 (26') with a displayed eci RGB color space, which includes the whole printable color spaces (espacially for offset and inkjet printers). It's just a bit better (I have used both - the EIZO CG221 with 100% Adobe RGB) and the QUATO intelliproof 260 excellence - but the "soft proof" accuracy in Photoshop for RGB/CMYK pinters is MUCH better than the EIZO's. So for my advertising agency I've decided to switch to QUATO monitors - and BTW they are MUCH cheaper than the EIZO's (and better on my opinion). Another advantage is the pixel pitch of 0,29 for the QUATO - the EIZO has 0,27 - you have bigger system fonts and it's more comfortable to read websites, documents and so on ("goodies" for your eyes ...)

The QUATO intelliproof series is also hardware calibrated - with an inbuilt 14bit LUT (EIZO uses only 12bit) and with a 5 year warranty. The monitors are UGRA (euoropean print standard) and swop (USA print standard) certified (included icolordisplay software and certification/test tool) and are compatible for example with DTP94 X-Rite and many other tools.

The best monitor I've ever used (and I used a lot of ... Apples, EIZO's ...) - I can really recommend it!

Best regards from germany
Markus
 
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