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HP’s Billion-color 30-inch Display

HP’s ZR30w S-IPS LCD display is a new 30-inch monitor that’s capable of displaying up to a billion colors. In comparison, Apple’s 30-inch Cinema display can reproduce about 16.7 million colors. The ZR30w offers a 30-bit per pixel color depth capable of showing the full sRGB gamut and 99 percent of Adobe RGB, 2560 x [...]

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GlassMats: Chair Mat for a Lifetime

One of the happiest investments we’ve made in our offices is the aptly-named GlassMat. Imagine rolling your chair around on glass instead of plastic, carpet, or wood — it’s a uniquely smooth and fatigue-reducing experience. GlassMats are made from glass that is specially treated to never crack, dent, indent, or discolor, and will never wear [...]

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More Accurate Color Capture and Correction

If you rely on digital photography, you’ll appreciate X-Rite’s new ColorChecker Passport: a set of passport-sized, travel-friendly notebooks containing every possible color target (or swatch) imaginable. Included in the set is a White Balance Target which lets you correctly set the white balance on your camera, a neutral gray target, a Creative Enhancement Target set [...]

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Why Get a Laser Printer?

A good PostScript laser printer costs as little as $299 (for example, the Brother HL-5370DWT) but a good inkjet printer costs the same or less. So why buy a laser printer? Here are two reasons: Prints from a laser printer cost much less than from an inkjet prnter — only about 2¢ per page when [...]

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