what is the best monitor can the graphic...

[yasmine]

...designer use?

[Mictlan_KISS]

Get Any WideScreen Item that Will Rotate so it displays content like a Page.... So its a Flat panel
Thats Pretty Much what I have Seen in the Multimedia and print areas that I have supported as a tech

[sipaulyap]

Monitor, typially you'd want an LCD monitor that is relatively wide as you'd then have more screen real-estate and you can view/work on more things at the same time. 21" will be quite sufficient.

An excellent graphics card with lots of memory (2Gb?) loaded on it will help to process the images onto your monitor much faster. Do a search with the text 'best graphics card' and you'll get tons of hits to choose from.

You'd also want to have a device that enables you to configure your monitor so that what you see on screen will be exactly what gets printed in real life. The link below shows you the device. This is useful if you're a serious graphics designer and you need to show your clients samples on screen or in digital form, but also want the final printed output to be exactly what they've seen. Since scren colours are RGB and printing colours uses CMYK, they don't always translate accurately and therefore the need for the device.

The site also lists some monitors that have extensive configuration abilities in which you have greater control over the adjustment of the colour, brightness, contrast, gamma, hue, saturation, etc... which normal monitors normally wouldn't have.

www.globalimaginginc.com (http://www.globalimaginginc.com/image_management/gm_eye-one.shtml
http://www.globalimaginginc.com/image_management/monitors.shtml)