TetraColors™ in Europe

Noorzena Displays promises to bring colour accuracy to a lower price point. The company has developed a solution called Tetracolors, a colour calibration and gamut-matching tool for all DVI displays. Colour accuracy is usually the domain of post-production and designers, but is also required for consumers - buying clothes online is much easier if you can tell that a dress is orange, not red! Noorzena claims Tetracolors users can adjust any display device with a DVI port (up to 1920x1200 resolution) to match another. For example, a laptop could be matched to a monitor, or a monitor to a print house's display settings. In the consumer world, a user could set their display to the standard that a website used to create its product images. A colorimeter is required to calibrate displays to certain gamuts and to match display colours, unless a user has the colour co-ordinates already saved in a file or can enter them manually. Tetracolors is able to split a display into up to four panes and assign a different gamut to each. Alternatively, a user can utilise a floating zone, specifying its size, position and gamut and moving it around the screen. The solution is available now for $500.

Use of TetraColors assumes that a display has a wide colour gamut, which is not true of all screens today especially consumer monitors. The solution will be able to match a display ‘look’, but non-WCG (none Wide Colour Gamut) screens will revert to their own minimum colour gamut. However, TetraColors will define the boundaries of a screen’s gamut for a user.

-Tom Allen – Display Monitor (Vol 21 No 17, page 18).