14 DAY TRIAL // Eizo has announced its new ColorEdge CG301W monitor, a 30-inch LCD display that comes with 12-bit hardware calibration functionality. The Eizo ColorEdge CG301W is designed primarily for use with professional graphics applications, and can accurately reproduce 97% of the Adobe RGB color space.
Hardware calibrations allows the user to adjust the monitor settings, rather than software-tweak the graphics card. Hardware calibration also ensures that no color tones are lost during the calibration process, in order to achieve the clearest and sharpest images. The monitor comes bundled with Eizo's ColorNavigator calibration software, and allows the user to adjust its brightness, white point, and gamma settings. After the calibration process completed successfully, the final settings can be saved as an ICC profile to be used later. The monitor can work with the Eye-One, DTP94, DTP94B, and MonacoOPTIX calibration devices, built by X-Rite.
The ColorNavigator software can also be used for emulating a certain color space for a different monitor. The CG301W can deliver a maximum resolution of 2560?1600 at a 16:10 aspect ratio. It can be simultaneously connected to up to two PCs via the built-in Dual-DVI inputs. The effective screen surface can be split in two virtual screens running at 1200?1600 with no center bezel.
The monitor comes with Eizo's ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit). It comes with a 12-bit look-up table that can render a color palette of 68.1 billion colors, but only the most appropriate 16.7 million are picked up. The 16-bit internal processing ensure for a proper display of grayscale tones, in order to bring up all the details.
The ASIC also includes a digital uniformity equalizer function that takes care of correcting the brightness and color uniformity errors (a frequent distortion caused by LCD panels) that make objects appear brighter in the center of the screen.