Apple Cinema 23" vs. HP2335 vs. NEC 2060u CRT

[plattners]

I have had my HP2335 professionally calibrated by an Eye-One device several times. The HP2335 is recommended by MacWorld Magazine as the best 23" monitor in its class. However, I have never been able to calibrate it successfully and have the image on its screen match my Epson 4000 print outputs.

Out of sheer frustration, I grabbed by mothballed NEC 2060u CRT monitor, calibrated it, and what do you know--at 5200K--the screen to print match is very, very close.

Question: is there something about the HP2335 monitor that makes it a poor choice for color work? Would the Cinema 23" be a better choice? Or some other model by LaCie or someone else? I can't fathom how my old NEC can be so superior to my HP2335 in terms of color consistency from monitor to print output.

Thanks.

[alainbriot]

Display quality and ease of calibration (or "calibrationality" ;-)  are two different things.   Some displays calibrate better than others while some displays have a higher color quality than others.  Some displays are both high quality and easy to calibrate.  Some are neither. Personally, I found that the Apple 23" calibrates well and has good color quality.