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[Mhayes]

I need some advice and some suggestions on what would be a good monitor at a decent price. I had hopes that I could find what the problem with my Sony Artisan Monitor and the calibration. This is a CRT and I have been very happy with it. I calibrate once a month (required) or sooner if needed, but this time I get 3/4 of the way through and get this message:

The following message appears: " An error has been detected during calibration. Please allow the display to warm up completely. The room light should be dim and constant throughout the calibration process. The Artisan Color Reference Display ;will be restored to its previous condition."

And the two remedies:

(1) The calibration was successful, but one or more of the values targeted by the Artisan software was not within tolerances. Acknowledge and rerun application. If, after repeated tries, the application continues to display this message, reboot and try again. If values are still not within tolerance, choose a less extreme colorspace, and try again.

(2) If your display is over two years old, then it may not be able to match the luminosity required by the calibration system.

Since I do not have it set to an extreme colorspace; I'm left thinking it must be #2 since this CRT is 6 years old and I had hoped that it would be good for 10 years. Anyone care to guess on this? Unfortunately Sony no longer makes the CRT and help is out of the question.

Next question, any recommendation for a good monitor that would come with calibration? I do not want to spend as much as I did for this monitor. I have looked at the LaCie 320 20" LCD, but the prices are all over the board! I can't believe the same place on-line can have a price ranging from $738 to over a $1,000.

The good news: I won't be able to tell if your restored photos are color corrected!  

Margie

[Hannie]

A new quality monitor that comes with hardware calibration is the Eizo Coloredge,  they go from around $1300 on Amazon.  I still think these are the best.  
The next best could the Eizo Flexscan but then you have to own a hardware calibrator.  The prices of the Flexscans are not that much lower than the Coloredge series anyways.

I hear an awful lot of raving about Dell monitors, I have not seen any so I don't know.  I have seen Nec monitors with hardware calibration and they seem to be pretty color realistic and not so expensive.  

On the Net there is lot of talk about IPS versus TN panels.  Supposedly IPS would be superior to IPS and although this may be the case, the TN panels sometimes score better than the IPS panels.  One example is the Lenovo Thinkpad W700, it has a TN panel that has almost the same gamut as the Eizo Coloredge and shows no significant difference in display.  Of course the  Lenovo is a laptop, an amazing one with an inbuilt hardware calibrator and a small Wacom tablet+pen built in  as well.  


Hannie

[Mhayes]

I think I will be going with a NEC LTD for my next monitor. I have a question though on buying calibration software separately. Silly question, but are settings different for using on a CRT as opposed to a LTD?

Margie

[Hannie]

Margie, when you start the software that comes with your hardware calibrator it will ask you if you have a CRT or LCD monitor.

Hannie

[Mhayes]

Good Morning Hannie,

I posted just as you did. Right now I am doing this while at work, so looking over my shoulder for security to drag me out and hold me under a water tap somewhere. OK, maybe a little far fetched, but only a little.  

Thanks for the information. I wish just once when something gives out it wouldn't be at the same time 3 or 4 other things happen at the same time. If it keeps this up; I will be working several jobs.

Margie

[Mhayes]

Thanks Hannie! I hear footsteps, got to go! 

I will be back on later when I get off work.

Margie

[Hannie]

Oh no!  Not the water tap! 

best wishes,

Hannie