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EIZO ColorEdge CG243W

61cm (24.1 inch) Class Color LCD Monitor

With the CG243W, you'll get outstanding color for just about any imaging task such as pre-press, digital photography, video editing, and post production. Features include a wide color gamut, IPS panel, and a DisplayPort input.

• 1920 x 1200 native resolution
• 850:1 contrast ratio
• 270 cd/m2 brightness
• 178° viewing angles
• DVI-I and DisplayPort inputs
• ColorNavigator 5 Calibration Software
• Supports MAC Leopard and Windows Vista 32 & 64 bit Operating Systems

Includes CH2 Monitor Hood

Features:

To ensure that each ColorEdge monitor produces the most accurate and consistent color gradations possible, EIZO carefully measures and sets every shade of R, G, and B from 0 - 255 on the production line with the monitor's 12-bit Look-Up Table, to produce a monitor gamma value of 2.2. Should the user prefer a different value, ColorNavigator software can be used to set the gamma value from a range of 1.0 up to 2.6 in increments of 0.1.

Color reproduction areaThe monitor reproduces 97% of the Adobe RGB color space so it can display most colors in a digital photo taken in Adobe RGB mode. Furthermore, it also has an sRGB mode to accurately reproduce colors in this narrower but commonly used color space, such as those seen on web pages or digital photos taken in sRGB mode.

Color reproduction areaThis monitor employs a 12-bit look-up table with a color palette of 68 billion colors from which the most appropriate 16.7 million (8 bits) are displayed. It also uses 16-bit internal processing for smooth display of grayscale tones without banding. What’s more, using the DisplayPort input, this monitor displays 10-bit color* which is more than 1 billion colors shown simultaneously. This is 64 times greater than the 16.7 million colors of 8-bit display.

With most LCD monitors, the black level is usually too bright which leads to banding and washing out of dark grays. 16-bit internal processing allows the monitor to reproduce a high level of detail in dark areas.

Adding a Color Measurement Device

• GretagMacbeth Eye-One Display 2
  The Eye-One Display 2, the next generation for monitor profiling, is a brand new, easy-to-use powerful, solution that provides the best monitor profile quality ever! With enhancements to both hardware and software, you'll achieve consistent, predictable color on all types of monitors - both LCD and CRT. Ideal for photographers, creative directors, publishers, and designers working in ad agencies and corporations.
• ColorVision Spyder 3 Pro
  Spyder3 features the all new Spyder3 colorimeter and monitor calibration for advanced amateurs and prosumers to create precise ICC display profiles for you CRT, LCD or notebook display.

Additional Accessories

• The flexibility in movement allows for quickly and easily adjusting the height, angle, and distance to accommodate the user's posture and viewing position.
• Internal cable housing for a clean desktop.

• Position the monitor almost anywhere with forward/backward and side-to-side movement.
• Attaches to the wall by just using the wall anchor.

Brightness and Color Uniformity with 12-Bit LUT
	Achieving uniform levels of brightness and color across the screen has been difficult with LCD monitors. To correct this problem, EIZO has developed an ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) and incorporated it into the ColorEdge CG241. This ASIC has a 12-bit look-up table (LUT) with an extensive palette of 4,081 grayscale tones for each R, G, and B, and internal calculation accuracy of 16-bits ( 64 times more accurate than 10-bit internal calculation).
	With Digital Uniformity Compensation	Without Digital Uniformity Compensation
	Color-separated image with Delta-E*ab distribution across the screen (gray level 128 measured)

16-bit Processing
	The 16-bit internal calculation of the CG241 produces grayscale rendering that is on a par with highendCRT monitors.The result is not only a much greater degree of detail in dark areas, but overall uniformity of brightness and color throughout the entire screen.
	With 10-bit processing, the error rate is high in low tonal areas during calculation. With 16-bit processing, accuracy is significantly improved resulting in fewer conversion errors.
	Emulation Function To take full advantage of the 12-bit LUT and 16-bit internal processing capabilities, EIZO has equipped the ColorEdge CG241 with an emulation function. Simply by obtaining the ICC profile of another monitor and using EIZO's ColorNavigator software, the ColorEdge CG241 can emulate its color characteristics. This is useful when another monitor is the standard monitor in a workflow, when different models are used in a multi-monitor setup, or for a remote proofing environment where the client, designer and printer want to be sure that their various monitors are displaying color the same way.