LaCie was a nightmare: how about Mitsubishi 2040u /Heidelberg 21TE (Storm) instead?
LaCie was a nightmare: how about Mitsubishi 2040u /Heidelberg 21TE (Storm) instead?
- Subject: LaCie was a nightmare: how about Mitsubishi 2040u /Heidelberg 21TE (Storm) instead?
- From: Henrik Holmegaard <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 08:33:42 +0100
Later I also saw a LaCie at our lithographers' office. He hates it too,
and understandably. There are color blotches all over the screen on his
21". His was returned three time before he gave up... (I already gave up
after two.)
I had a LaCie for testing when I did a flopped Barco, Quatographic,
Apple and LaCie test that resulted in the threat of legal action from
the Barco side because I found that Calibratortalk didn't support the
ColorSync 2.5 Video Card Gamma Tag -:).
I had problems getting the LaCie to work. It used a DIP switch which
took a service technician to figure out. You know, Macs aren't that
frequent in prepress -:).
I couldn't figure out the Barco setup, either. It too came with a DIP
switch. We tried all of three. Same thing, who uses Mac's in prepress?
I plugged in the Quatographic in a 4Mb video memory 7500 with System
8 dot something, chose the calibration matrix (3x3 up to 5x5 areas),
calibrated, and then ran the built-in ProfileMaker version.
Your current problem is caused by ambient magnetism. The LaCie
monitor has built-in degaussing which as far as I recall you activate
from the front panel. The Quatographic is actually a Hitachi shadow
mask monitor, the brand Barco also shifted to from Trinitron, if I
remember rightly, it's been a while. This thing has a really violent
bang when it degausses. You don't get to miss the action -:).
System 9 offers built-in OS-level degaussing for the Apple monitors.
And they don't come with DIP switches -:). It cured an ailing
AppleVision monitor I had given up hopes of salvaging. Not bad.
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Henrik Holmegaard
TechWrite, Denmark