Pat, Actually when I used the reference image I got from David Hunter a few years ago to check the smoothness of the gradations I was very impressed with how smooth they looked on this monitor. For the money I think this monitor is a "Win". Dennis Dunbar Blog: http://www.dunbardigital.com/blog/blog.php Website: http://www.dunbardigital.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/DennisDunbar On Mar 14, 2012, at 12:00 PM, colorsync-users-request@lists.apple.com wrote:

I am curious to know if anyone detects more banding than usual on these wide-gamut Dells? Considering what a wide gamut these have and that they are limited to 256 steps of color resolution in the graphics card when you profile them, you would expect to see some banding - gradients of color blocking up and looking "chunky" instead of smooth. This is the reason Eizo's and NEC's have their built-in graphics capability... to lessen the likelihood of banding happening with wide gamut monitors. Dennis, have you seen this with yours?

Pat Herold herold@chromix.com