justifying 21-inch monitors

[Alexander Von_obert <avobert -at- TWH -dot- MSN -dot- SUB -dot- ORG>]

Hello Kat,


* Antwort auf eine Nachricht von Kat Nagel/MasterWork  an All am 15.09.95

KN> grayscale --- since most color monitors look fuzzy to me and
KN> give me
KN> headaches (except for a $38k video graphics workstation I saw
KN> at a recent computer show <envy,lust,envy>)

I could not agree more. As I hardly to DTP work, I only use an old Eizo
 Flexscan 9500 17" b/w monitor.

BTW: You might have some unexpected difficuties using a b/w monitor on a PC.
 This comes from the fact, that most video card drivers asume a color monitor
 and do not use the b/w coding in the video connector. The standard VGA video
 driver is about the only one that recognizes b/w monitors.

The problem depends on using the green video signal exclusively. E.g., my
 PageMaker 4 uses green lines and green on green gives not so much contrast :-)

You can solve this for a program like PM by changing the color of those green
 elements. Or you can "patch" your video card driver by hardware. This patch
 can be put into an adapter you insert between the video connector at the back
 of your computer and the video cable of your b/w monitor. The adapter contains
 two connectors and three resistors. Of course you need to know which end of
 your soldering iron gets hot :-)

Interested? Then I'll do some ASCII drawing...


Greetings from Germany,
Alexander

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