MATCH MAKER

BenQ built its reputation on affordable high-performance monitors for video and gaming, but it turned its hand to photo monitors a few years ago and is now gaining a strong following in this sector. A few product design awards have helped, including the latest from TIPA (Technical Image Press Association) for Best Professional Photo Monitor for the SW321C. Given how hotly this category has been contested in the last couple of years, this is quite an achievement.

But BenQ has been working hard to load its latest with goodies specifically aimed at the photographer, such as Paper Colour Sync, a nifty bit of software that replicates the base tint of inkjet media to give a more accurate matching of screen to printer. This was a print-making factor that was previously pretty tricky to manage effectively. Furthermore, the SW321C arrives with factory calibration via BenQ’s AQCOLOR – a colour display technology designed to optimise