Unparalleled display performance for your
COLOR-CRITICAL
applications.
These images were captured on a standard digital camera in AdobeRGB
colorspace. The gray areas in the photographs show the out of gamut
colors when the images are viewed on a typical sRGB display monitor. It
is impossible to display these colors on such a monitor.
The need for enhanced color gamut displays
Designed from the ground up with more than 3
years of research and development, and featur-
ing many ground-breaking technologies never
before available on a consumer display, the 21.3”
LCD2180WG-LED represents NEC’s flagship color
reference display. This display is aimed directly
at the professional color market where screen
brightness, color gamut, uniformity, stability and
repeatability are of the utmost importance.
The LCD2180WG-LED is the first commercial
display to feature individual high power red,
green and blue LEDs (Light Emitting Diodes) as a
backlight source for the LCD, instead of the typi-
cal CCFL (Cold Cathode Fluorescent Lamp). This
significant change, made possible by the recent
advances in LED light output and efficiency, pro-
vides remarkable increases to the output color
gamut, as well as to the fidelity to which screen
colors can be adjusted.
This increase in displayable color gamut opens up
an entirely new era of color workflow in which the
display screen can be trusted to accurately rep-
resent the colors that were captured, edited and
will be output, be it on print, film or other media.
Recent advances in digital image capturing
devices, such as digital cameras, are now capable
of offering expanded color gamuts, such as
AdobeRGB, as a standard color space. At the
same time, ink jet printers are now capable of
reproducing colors from very large color gamuts.
As this technology gets better and becomes more
accessible, the need for accuracy in viewing and
soft-proofing color is increasing as well.
Whereas traditional displays were typically limited
to a color gamut of sRGB, the color gamut of
the LCD2180WG-LED exceeds that of even the
AdobeRGB colorspace. This means that the display
is no longer the limiting factor for color gamut
within a typical color workflow. The color work-
flow can be simplified by reducing or even elimi-
nating the need to make color output proofs, as
is typically needed with a traditional display in
order to accurately check colors that are outside
the display’s color gamut. This represents a sig-
nificant benefit in time and cost savings.
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