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If you are serious about graphic design, especially print design and color accuracy, get a CRT monitor. They aren't as sexy or lightweight as LCDs and they put out a lot of heat and consume a lot of electricity compared to LCDs, but they reproduce colors very precisely, and LCDs simply do not. You may have to buy one used, since most companies do not make many anymore. I'd recommend a Mitsubishi Diamond Pro or a Sony Trinitron.

If perfect color reproduction is not important to you, and a close approximation to the real-life color is good enough, then get a Dell LCD. They have been rated much better than Apple's LCDs as far as picture quality and often cost as little as half less.

2007-04-06 04:19:15 · answer #1 · answered by Rex M 6 · 1 0

Monitor, typially you'd want an LCD monitor that is relatively wide as you'd then have more screen real-estate and you can view/work on more things at the same time. 21" will be quite sufficient.

An excellent graphics card with lots of memory (2Gb?) loaded on it will help to process the images onto your monitor much faster. Do a search with the text 'best graphics card' and you'll get tons of hits to choose from.

You'd also want to have a device that enables you to configure your monitor so that what you see on screen will be exactly what gets printed in real life. The link below shows you the device. This is useful if you're a serious graphics designer and you need to show your clients samples on screen or in digital form, but also want the final printed output to be exactly what they've seen. Since scren colours are RGB and printing colours uses CMYK, they don't always translate accurately and therefore the need for the device.

The site also lists some monitors that have extensive configuration abilities in which you have greater control over the adjustment of the colour, brightness, contrast, gamma, hue, saturation, etc... which normal monitors normally wouldn't have.

2007-04-06 11:17:29 · answer #2 · answered by VinceY 4 · 0 1

It is not the monitor that should be your main concern but the graphics card and the software driver that goes with it.

Of course the more money you spend on the monitor then the better it will look.

Most monitors are just plug and play. No software is required.
Get the best graphics card you can afford and you will be able to see your graphics in full detail.

2007-04-06 10:47:52 · answer #3 · answered by AnalProgrammer 7 · 1 1

Get Any WideScreen Item that Will Rotate so it displays content like a Page.... So its a Flat panel
Thats Pretty Much what I have Seen in the Multimedia and print areas that I have supported as a tech

2007-04-06 10:39:23 · answer #4 · answered by Mictlan_KISS 6 · 0 2

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