What's the best monitor for print?

[Minuteman Press]

Review on Spyder Pro here... Spyder Pro Review

[LovesPrint]

Great and useful review, easy to follow. Thanks!

[DougBarned]

I'm also looking into the best monitors for print colour reproduction...

Apparently Lacie displays are really good (if expensive). Any thoughts on these screens?

We've got 1 old and 1 newer (but not new) 22" Apple cinema displays, and 1 24" Lacie in the office at the moment and the senior designer swears by it. It is a lot better than the Apple screens, but a lot of money (especially when she doesn't calibrate it anyway). Would spending less on a 30" other brand be a better investment for productivity do you think?

Cheers

/Doug

[10thWay]

I've heard the Panasonic are really good too, anyone got one of those?

[Wacomgirl]

I would go for Eizo/Lacie if you have the budget.
If you are looking to save : then go for the Nec

[SparkCreative]

I would go for Eizo/Lacie if you have the budget.
If you are looking to save : then go for the Nec

And the NEC are still not exactly cheap...

I work on an NEC with Eye One match calibration. works for me.

[MarkS]

A regularly calibrated one (and a Pantone deck in your back pocket).

I am currently using a relatively crappy LG (MG203WA), I calibrate with a Spyder2.
This is only until I can order a new one - currently looking at the BenQ LED ones - BenQ United Kingdom - Computing

But no matter how well your (the designer's) monitor is set up, if you send a PDF through to a client for approval, you are relying on their monitor being calibrated to show them a true representation of colours etc.

So, from this angle, always get the client to sign off a printed proof - and even then is it printed on the same machine that the final print run will be done on??

[theGicleeService]

To be honest I would never get a client to sign off on colours!

Just like monitors are difficult to calibrate so are humans, and everyones eyesight is different!

The only proof is a wet proof, monitors and everything else can only get you in the ball park.

I would go in order of preference - Eizo or NEC Spectraview and an i1 PRO if you are serious about colour.


These guys really know their shizzle:

Colour Confidence > Colour Confidence - Colour management, ICC profiling, X-Rite, Pantone, ColorVision, DataColor

and these are their 5 star rated monitors:

Colour Confidence > 5 star LCD monitors - colour accurate monitors from Eizo and NEC