[argyllcms] Re: Recommended LCD monitor?

  • From: "Pascal de Bruijn" <pmjdebruijn@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: argyllcms@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2008 13:38:57 +0100

On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 12:51 AM, Leonard Evens
<len@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I am ready to give up on my Samsung 226CW.  I had a lot of success with
> a Viewpoint CRT, but it just got to dim, which is why I bought the
> Samsung.
> (Because of my back I can't manage the weight of a CRT.)   I called
> Xrite about another matter and was told they regularly have problems
> advising people with Samsungs, but that almost any other of the standard
> brands in the range $300-600 should produce decent results.  (I can't
> see spending several thousand on a first class professional monitor, and
> I shouldn't need one for the work I do.)
>
> I was looking at some monitors at Office Depot today, and i noticed that
> the adjustments for Viewpoint monitors seemed similar to those on my
> CRT, although I suppose they do entirely different things.   I had a
> good understanding of what I was doing when calibrating/profiling my
> CRT, but I am still not clear what the best procedure should be for an
> LCD, partly because it is not very clear just what the controls do.
>
> Any recommendations for a monitor that was easy to work with?

I'm having very decent results with my HP LP2475w... But are you sure
your Samsung really is the problem...

Regards,
Pascal de Bruijn

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