Eizo ColorEdge CG275W

The Eizo CG275W is a professional, colour-accurate TFT monitor, ideal for digital photography, those involved in photo editing, graphic designers, pre-press and other image/graphics professionals who need a monitor they can trust to represent colour accurately. Additionally, the Eizo ColorEdge CG275 includes a built-in calibrator, which means keeping your monitor accurate is incredibly easy - no more hunting for the calibrator and wondering if it's still accurate, no more fumbling to find a spare USB port - just run the software, or even just press a button sequence on the front of the screen and the calibration is done!

For full specifications, visit the EIzo site: Eizo CG275W specifications.

Eizo CG275W at a Glance

Automate your calibration and spend your work hours working. The ColorEdge CG275W comes with a built-in sensor so it self-calibrates when you schedule it to – even after you’ve turned it off and called it a day.

• 2560 × 1440 native resolution
• 97% Adobe RGB gamut coverage
• Uniformity delta-E difference of 3 or less
• 850:1 contrast ratio
• 270 cd/m2 brightness
• DVI-D, DisplayPort, and Mini DisplayPort inputs
• Monitor hood included
• Expert pre- and post-sales support from Native Digital

Features

Built-in Calibration Sensor

Built-in sensor is housed within the monitor’s bottom bezel and swings up onto the screen when calibration begins. This sensor eliminates the need for a third-party calibration device and even operates in portrait mode

Self-Calibrating Monitor

Using either the OSD (on screen display) menu or the included ColorNavigator software, you can schedule the ColorEdge CG275W to self-calibrate at specific times. Reassuringly, even if the monitor is switched off or not even connected to a computer, it will stick to its preset schedule and self-calibrate.

OS-Independent Calibration

Since the PC itself is not necessary for self-calibration, the ability to calibrate the monitor is not dependent on using an operating system supported by the ColorNavigator software. Therefore, a calibrated ColorEdge CG275W can be used with Linux even though ColorNavigator currently does not support this OS.

Correlation with Other Sensors

The ColorEdge CG275W can be correlated to the measurement results of an external calibration sensor. This is convenient if the ColorEdge CG275W is used in a work environment with other ColorEdge monitors and one measurement device must be used as a standard for all calibrating. Correlation is done with a new “Correlation Utility” included with the bundled ColorNavigator software.

Simple and Precise Calibration with ColorNavigator

The bundled ColorNavigator software makes calibration both simple and quick. Just input target values for brightness, white point, and gamma. The built-in sensor directly utilizes the monitor's look-up table and creates an ICC profile within minutes.

Wide Area, High Resolution Screen

The ColorEdge CG275W features a 2560 × 1440 native resolution across its 27-inch screen. This is more than double the pixels of a 19-inch monitor with a 1280 × 1024 resolution and 60% more than a monitor with a 1920 × 1200 resolution. This gives you plenty of room to spread out your windows and palettes.

Wide Colour Gamut

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

Three Inputs Including DisplayPort

DVI-D, DisplayPort, and Mini DisplayPort are included. DisplayPort and Mini DisplayPort accept both video and audio signals simultaneously. Mini DisplayPort offers the further benefit of connection with Mac and Windows-based notebook computers.

10-Bit Simultaneous Display

The monitor can display 10-bit colour from a 16-bit look-up table via its DisplayPort input*. This is more than 1 billion colours shown simultaneously which is 64 times greater than the 16.7 million colours of 8-bit display. The result is even smoother colour gradations and reduced Delta-E between two adjacent colours.

*A graphics board and software which support 10-bit output are also necessary for 10-bit display.

Brightness and Colour Uniformity with DUE

Fluctuations in brightness and chroma on different parts of the screen are a common trait of LCD monitors. To counteract this, the monitor incorporates an EIZO-developed digital uniformity equalizer (DUE). DUE ensures a Delta-E difference of 3 or less across the screen when the monitor leaves the factory.

3D LUT for Better Additive Colour Mixture

The monitor utilizes a new EIZO-developed 3D LUT. Whereas a typical 1D LUT adjusts colour on separate tables for each red, green, and blue, a 3D LUT accomplishes this on a single, mixed-colour cubic table. A 3D LUT improves the monitor's additive colour mixture (combination of RGB), a key factor in its ability to display neutral grey tones.

Factory Adjustment of Gamma

To ensure that each ColorEdge monitor produces the most accurate and consistent colour 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 16-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.

Verification Documents Included

EIZO stands behind the quality of the ColorEdge series by including two verification documents with each monitor. One document verifies the uniformity on 25 points across the screen while the other certifies that all 256 colour tones on the gamma curve were individually adjusted at the factory.

Brightness and Colour Temperature Stability

To ensure proper display of colour, the ColorEdge CG275W comes equipped with patented EIZO technology that stabilizes the monitor’s brightness level after startup or coming out of power saving mode. Furthermore, a temperature sensor detects and automatically suppresses changes in colour and brightness caused by fluctuations in the surrounding temperature.

Ideal for Moving Image Work

An overdrive circuit is included to reduce grey-to-grey response time to 5 ms and ensure that moving images look clean and sharp with an absolute minimum of blurring and ghosting.

Shading Hood for Portrait and Landscape Modes

Most shading hoods can only be used in landscape mode, but the ColorEdge CG275W comes bundled with a unique shading hood that is designed for portrait mode as well. Now you can keep the glare off your screen no matter which mode you work in.

New Cabinet and Stand Design

The CG275W is the first ColorEdge monitor with a new cabinet and the FlexStand 2. The cabinet design maintains the distinct look of EIZO monitors while introducing a more smoothly rounded appearance. The FlexStand 2 complements the new cabinet design while offering very versatile positioning with 152 mm height adjustment, 25° tilt, 344° swivel, and 90° rotation for portrait mode viewing.

Presence Sensor for Power Savings

EIZO’s EcoView Sense feature unites convenience with energy savings by ensuring that the monitor automatically conserves power when it is not in use. EcoView Sense is an integrated presence sensor that prompts the monitor to switch to power save mode when it detects your absence, and then resume normal operation when you return. To prevent the screen from reactivating when it shouldn't, EcoView Sense differentiates between your presence and a still object like an empty chair or general office activity in the background.

Colour Vision Deficiency Simulation

To avoid creating inconveniences and even dangers for those with colour vision deficiency, care must be taken when choosing colour schemes for everyday items such as maps, road signs, web sites, and power indicator lights. This monitor can instantly simulate how still and moving images appear to people with two types of red-green (protanopia and deuteranopia) and one type of blue-yellow (tritanopia) colour vision deficiency.

LED Buttons and On-Screen Button Guide

For dimly lit work environments, the LED front buttons can be backlight to seven different brightness settings. An on-screen button guide appears above the buttons to indicate what each one is for.

Commitment to Quality

While outsourcing production is now common practice in the monitor industry, EIZO continues to manufacture its products the same way it has throughout its 40 year history — with its own staff at its own factories. This allows EIZO to keep close control over production quality and offer the industry’s only 5-year manufacturer’s limited warranty.

Customer Assurance

A five-year warranty offers a long service life, and compliance with leading industry standards such as TCO’03 and TÜV Ergonomics ensures a better working environment.