EIZO ColorEdge CS2731: 27-inch WQHD Graphics Monitor for Creative Professionals

Introduction

The EIZO ColorEdge CS2731 is a 27-inch WQHD monitor designed to meet the demanding needs of creative professionals, including photographers, filmmakers, and designers. It serves as a central docking station for graphic workflows, offering a single USB-C cable solution for monitor signal, fast data transfer, and power delivery to connected laptops or tablets. Its hardware calibration, wide color gamut, and advanced features ensure unaltered image file viewing and precise color reproduction.

Key features include:

• 27" Wide Gamut LCD with 2560 x 1440 (WQHD) resolution for fine details.
• EIZO ASIC for precise, uniform, and constant color representation.
• Wide color gamut with 99% Adobe RGB coverage.
• Precise hardware calibration of brightness, white point, and gamma.
• Excellent luminance distribution and color purity via Digital Uniformity Equalizer (DUE).
• 16-bit look-up table (LUT) and 10-bit color reproduction for smooth transitions.
• USB-C (DisplayPort signal and up to 60W power delivery), DisplayPort, DVI-D, and HDMI inputs.
• USB hub with 2x 5Gbps (USB 3) and 2x USB 2 ports.

Sharp Images for Pixel-Perfect Detail

The monitor delivers exceptional image quality with its maximum resolution of 2560 x 1440, a 1000:1 contrast ratio, and a maximum brightness of 350 cd/m². This allows for pixel-perfect editing of graphics and images. Text contours are clear and precise. The IPS (Wide Gamut) LCD module provides a 178-degree viewing angle, ensuring stable colors and contrasts regardless of the user's viewing position.

Smooth Transitions and Gradients with 16-bit LUT and 10-bit Mode: The CS2731's internal 16-bit LUT calculates with extremely high color depth, and the panel outputs signals with up to 10 bits. This provides billions of color nuances for precise monitor representation, effectively avoiding rendering errors like banding or clipping in gradients and color shifts in grayscale levels. Fine nuances and structures in dark or highly saturated image areas are rendered with detail and fidelity.

Saturated Colors with Wide Color Gamut

To utilize the full color spectrum of modern cameras, a monitor with the widest possible color gamut is essential. The ColorEdge CS2731's IPS panel covers over 99% of the broad photographic AdobeRGB color space, as well as the CMYK ISO-Coated V2 print color space. This ensures that the full spectrum of colors from modern cameras is represented without distortion. Accurate simulation of print results in Softproof view is also guaranteed.

Visual representation: 10-bit color with 16-bit LUT offers significantly smoother gradients than 8-bit color with an 8-bit LUT or even 8-bit color with a 16-bit LUT.

Ready for Use Out of the Box: Perfect from the Factory

Each ColorEdge CS2731 is individually measured and optimally adjusted at the EIZO factory. Gamma curves for red, green, and blue channels are closely monitored and corrected. This unique factory calibration allows users to utilize the monitor with pre-set color spaces immediately after unpacking. This complex factory calibration also makes recalibration with ColorNavigator software quick and efficient.

Uncompromising Hardware Calibration: Fast, Simple, and Lossless

For a monitor to consistently display the same file in the same way throughout its lifespan, regular calibration is essential. All ColorEdge monitors use a lossless hardware calibration process. Unlike software calibration, which carries a risk of display quality loss, hardware calibration adjusts the monitor's look-up table (LUT) directly, rather than just creating a correction profile for the graphics card.

Perfection Across the Entire Screen: Digital Uniformity Equalizer

Every screen panel is precisely measured across its entire surface at the EIZO factory. Any potential luminance inhomogeneities and color deviations are detected and corrected. This Digital Uniformity Equalizer (DUE) process ensures that identical colors appear the same regardless of their position on the screen throughout the monitor's usage. This is crucial for precise image processing and retouching.

Visual Comparison:

With DUE: Uniform brightness and color distribution across the entire screen.

Without DUE: Potential variations in brightness and color, especially towards the edges.

EIZO Software for Quick Calibration and Printing

Monitor characteristics change over time as they age. Therefore, graphics monitors requiring absolute display consistency must be regularly calibrated and corrected. EIZO's free ColorNavigator 7 calibration software allows for easy and lossless correction of the ColorEdge CS2731 in as little as 90 seconds (measured with MacBook Pro and EX4). This ensures the same image appears on screen identically for years.

The free Quick Color Match software helps users, even without extensive color management knowledge, to preview on-screen how their images will look when printed on a Canon or Epson inkjet printer. This allows for image optimization for specific photo paper characteristics before printing, avoiding costly print errors.

Learn more about EIZO ColorNavigator

Learn more about Quick Color Match

Best Connectivity: USB-C Docking Station

The ColorEdge CS2731 offers cutting-edge connectivity with USB-C, enabling monitor signal, USB data transfer, and power delivery up to 60W through a single cable. This transforms the CS2731 into a central docking station for graphic workflows. Peripherals like mice, keyboards, or printers can be connected directly to the USB-A ports. Mobile devices such as laptops or tablets can even be charged with up to 60W via the USB-C cable, turning the laptop and CS2731 into a complete desktop workstation.

Learn more about USB-C in the EIZO Academy.

Optimal Color Reproduction: EIZO Microchip

The CS2731 features a high-quality microchip (ASIC) specifically developed by EIZO to meet the demanding requirements of color-accurate work. This microchip is the 'brain' of every ColorEdge monitor, guaranteeing the precise, uniform, and constant display that EIZO is known for.

One Monitor, Many Ports

The CS2731 supports various video formats via USB-C, HDMI, and DisplayPort interfaces. This allows the monitor to be integrated not only into PC-based workflows but also used with HDMI players.

Ergonomics: Comfortable Working

For Eye Well-being: Flicker-Free Operation

The monitor operates without flickering, regardless of the brightness setting. This reduces eye fatigue, allowing for extended work periods.

Two PCs, One Monitor: KVM Switch

Easily control different PCs with a single mouse and keyboard. Thanks to the upstream USB ports, the CS2731 has an integrated KVM (Keyboard Video Mouse) switch. The monitor automatically associates the mouse and keyboard with the currently active source computer. This allows seamless work with a desktop and laptop, or a professional and personal computer, using the same monitor, mouse, and keyboard setup, leading to a tidy workspace.

Anti-Glare Coating: More Image, Fewer Reflections

The CS2731 offers an optimal anti-glare surface. By minimizing reflections from scattered light, it effectively prevents glare and eye strain. This reduces eye fatigue, allowing users to sit comfortably in front of the screen without adopting awkward "forced positions" to avoid reflections.

Ergonomic Stand

EIZO screens offer continuously adjustable height, allowing them to be lowered to the base of the stand for optimal ergonomics whether standing or sitting. The stand can also be rotated, tilted, and swiveled for the most comfortable user position. The CS2731 can also be rotated into portrait mode, which is particularly advantageous for portrait-oriented sequential shots in people photography.

Stand Adjustments:

• Height Adjustment: 155 mm [height adjustment]
• Swivel: 344° [swivel]
• Tilt: 5° forward to 35° backward [tilt]
• Pivot: 90° clockwise [pivot]

Environmental and Climate Protection

Each CS2731 is manufactured in EIZO's own factory, which implements an environmental management system compliant with ISO 14001. This system includes measures to reduce waste, wastewater, and emissions, conserve resources and energy, and encourage environmentally conscious employee behavior. EIZO publicly reports on these measures annually.

Durable and Sustainable: Environmentally and Socially Responsible Manufacturing

The CS2731 is produced in a socially responsible manner, without child labor or forced labor. Suppliers throughout the supply chain are carefully selected and committed to this responsibility, especially regarding conflict minerals. EIZO voluntarily provides a detailed annual report on its social responsibility.

The CS2731 is designed for a long service life, typically well beyond the five-year warranty. Spare parts are available for up to five years after production ends. The entire usage cycle considers environmental impact, as durability and repairability conserve resources and the climate. During the CS2731's design, EIZO focused on using few resources with high-quality components and materials, and producing with care.

Warranty: Optimal Investment Security

5-Year Warranty: EIZO provides a five-year warranty, including an on-site exchange service. This is made possible by a state-of-the-art manufacturing process based on well-thought-out, innovative technology made with premium materials.

Zero Dead Pixel Guarantee: For six months from the date of purchase, there are no fully lit sub-pixels (image elements according to ISO 9241-307).

Technical Specifications