Monitor

[HiTech_Monkeyboy]

Can anyone recommend a good monitor for doing color correction? We need a new one and I'm hoping someone out there has some suggestions. Should be easy to calibrate to the proofers, only guideline I have. Thanks in advance.

[Damo]

I use a 19" Eizo LCD at work, and it's great! They're pretty expensive, though.

My colleagues are all using 19" HP LCDs, and they're good too. Their gamut is easily big enough to encompass the magazine work we do, and they don't blow the budget. Frankly, I think most new LCDs are good enough for prepress work. You'd only need the high-end monitors for high-end photographic fine-art work.

Should be easy to calibrate to the proofers, only guideline I have.

Surprised that nobody else has queried you on this. Don't fall into the trap of trying to get your monitor to match your output targets. Loosely speaking, modern colour management is monitor-centric. Calibrate your monitor with a good device (eg Gretag Macbeth, Spyder), then build profiles to make everything else match that.

Damo.

[HiTech_Monkeyboy]

Damo,

Thanks for the input, looks like we may go with the Eizo 24" LCD.

To answer your question, we have the proofers calibrated to our presses. Much easier to take the proofers to them than the other way around. The monitor that we've been using for color was pretty close up until recently. It's a couple of years old now and starting to slip so it's time to upgrade.

[mattbeals]

Eizo... 'Nuf said