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cadlabsreview Not all PDF and DWF Files are Created Equal The LaCie 321 is equipped with a removable cowl — called the easyHood — to block unwanted light from the monitor surface. It provides off-the-scale good color rendition with vibrant, accurate, and extremely pure colors. higher quality and smaller size PDF files. The LaCie 321 is a high-gamut display, offering CRT-grade 72% NTSC gamut in combination with a screen brightness of 250 cd/m2 and a contrast rating of 800:1, making it an excellent choice for those to whom color fidelity and accuracy are paramount. Color correction is incorporated into the display at the base level, and the LaCie 321 has an embedded integrated circuit with 12-bit lookup tables. Color gradations are extremely smooth, with subtleties that are lost on most displays displaying onscreen. A removable cowl, which LaCie calls the easyHood, blocks unwanted light from the monitor surface, and an optional colorimeter puck is available for extremely accurate color calibration. The puck attaches to your system via a USB port and uses LaCie’s included blue eye pro software for calibration. On the test bench, the LaCie 321 performed flawlessly, with no ghosting or flickering. Grays were neutral, with both grayscale and color ramps being smooth and step free. Brightness and contrast were excellent. The color rendition was off-the-scale good, with vibrant and accurate colors that were extremely pure. Physical controls for the LaCie 321 consist of a number of buttons on the bottom front and up the lower-right side of the bezel to control source, left, right, up, down, reset, and the ubiquitous Power button with an indicator LED. In keeping with the importance of the onscreen image, there is little to distract, making it difficult to ascertain the button functions. However, you can touch any button and the function of all the buttons appears briefly onscreen next to the individual buttons to indicate their specific functions. The OSM has great depth and is very easy to comprehend and use. The stand is very stable and showed no wiggle at any extension or in vertical mode. Pricing, as one might expect in a display with extensive color-control capabilities, is $1,679.99 — a bit on the pricey side. But if you’re looking for superb color fidelity, it may be worth it to you. Highly Recommended. AutoCAD 2000 - 2008 Compatible Batch Creation of PDF, DWF, or Images Automatic Bookmark Creation Custom File Naming Options Create a PDF from any Windows Application Try it free for 30 days. http://www.cadzation.com http://www.cadzation.com

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Contents Editor's Window Techtrends: Resurrecting an Unforgettable Second Living Large UGS Solid Edge v20 Adobe Acrobat 3D v8 Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended CAD Manager: Managing 2D and 3D in the Same Office MCAD Modeling: Where is MCAD Going? AEC in Focus: Automated Estimating and Scheduling Using BIM CAD Cartoon Issue Indexes CADfidential

Cadalyst - September 2007

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