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The HP DreamColor Z27x is a top-end monitor, intended primarily for designers and other creative types who need serious colour accuracy. At this point it may seem a stop-gap before OLED monitors are within reach of those without a company credit card and an “anything goes” expenses policy. However, it’ll be a while before that changes.

The HP DreamColor Z27x, which can be picked up for a mere pittance versus the Dell (about £900), uses an IPS panel, so elements like response times and black level aren’t quite as good as OLED. Its colour performance, and other aspects that professionals and creative types will value highly, are top-notch, however.

The HP DreamColor Z27x is a 27-inch "professional" monitor. That means a few things: first, it’s not cheap. Second, the design is rather plain. Unlike a Samsung consumer monitor, its aim isn’t to appear as slim and shiny as possible.

On the back panel are an HDMI port, two DisplayPort connections, two USB 3.0s, an Ethernet connector, and a USB 3.0 Type B for connection to a PC rather than a peripheral.

These are your normal connections, but there’re more. Two extra “DreamColor” USB ports on the back let you plug in a colorimeter and recalibrate the various screen modes without a computer even being connected. This is handy, letting you alter the screen’s performance, or simply give it a refresh without touching any often-clunky colorimeter software.

HP sells its own DreamColor calibration kit for £220, but it’s really just a rebranded X-Rite iDisplay Pro (£200) as far as we can tell. A standard iDisplay Pro works too, and HP supports most big-brand colorimeters, including the Klein K10-A. Calibration only takes a couple of minutes for each run, and is a good way to take the sting out of the regular recalibration that"s required for pro use. That"s particularly true if the monitor is going to be used on secured IT systems that only allow certain approved software installs.

The other stand-out feature of the HP DreamColor Z27x is that it can be network-controlled. It doesn’t have inbuilt Wi-Fi, though, needing to be connected using the Ethernet socket. Advertisement

The way you interact with the HP DreamColor Z27x is typical of its unalloyed pragmatism. A column of buttons sits to the right side of the monitor, not hidden on the back or the side. HP has tooled the interface for designers rather than the hardcore tech crowd that gets a kick out of seeing colour gamut charts for new monitors. It’s very accessible, and some of you might even find it a bit too simple.

The HP DreamColor Z27x is an AH-IPS monitor. This tells us it uses an LG panel, as AH-IPS is an LG-developed technology. It stands for Advanced High Performance IPS, but like all the other IPS variants, it’s still an IPS LCD display with an LED backlight.

It’s a 2560×1440 resolution display rather than 4K too, resulting in pixel density of 108 pixels per inch (ppi). 4K Ultra HD displays get you 163ppi at the same size, making pixelation less obvious if you use the display at reasonably close quarters. It’s a reminder of quite how much more we appreciate high-ppi monitors than high-res TVs. Those tiny fonts aren’t kind to lower pixel-density displays. As a useful extra, the Z27x will take 4K input, simply downscaling it to its native 2560×1440 rather than refusing altogether.

At present only the 31.5-inch HP DreamColor Z32x (£1500) offers 4K resolution in this particular range, although HP’s cheaper, less colour-obsessed lines offer plenty of 4K monitors for less cash. For example, the HP Z27s (non-DreamColor) costs £670 and has a UHD panel, but only claims to fulfil the sRGB standard, not Adobe RGB, which digs far deeper into the colour spectrum.

This is high resolution UHD 4K LCD of frame type. Its connector does not match standard WXGA++ LCD. Any attempt to upgrade resolution to 4K UHD will unfortunately fail, which may result in blurry image, or image being out of scale. Other times laptop may not take any input, and LCD may remain white. You"re strongly discouraged to upgrade from lower resolution LCDs. Make sure your existing resolution is 3840 x 2160 Ultra HD 4k before making the purchase. Dream Color Display.

We recommend checking out our discussion threads on the HP DreamColor Color Calibration Solution B1F63AA, which address similar problems with connecting and setting up Calibration HP.

User manual for the HP DreamColor Color Calibration Solution B1F63AA The user manual for the HP DreamColor Color Calibration Solution B1F63AA provides necessary instructions for the proper use of the product Computers & Solutions - Monitor & Display Accessories - Calibration.

The DreamColor Color Calibration Solution from HP is a color calibration tool complete with user-defined monitor gamma choices and white point settings. Use this color calibrator with HP DreamColor displays to provide accurate color measurements as it comes equipped with a custom designed RGB filter set.

Attach the bus-powered DreamColor Color Calibration Solution to a compatible DreamColor monitor and begin measuring color accuracy up to 5X faster than comparable calibrators. The color calibrator can also be attached to non-DreamColor displays where it supports ambient light check and matching capabilities. When using this calibration tool on a DreamColor or non-DreamColor display, it can be transferred between displays as it comes with an optical design for high repeatability.

The HP DCS can provide calibration for the HP Z24x (The HP DCS does not support the Z24x with a Mac), HP Z27x, HP DreamColor LP2480zx, the HP LD4730/LD4730G Video Wall Display, and HP ZBook and EliteBook Mobile Workstations with the DreamColor display option. It can also create monitor profiles for other HP business and consumer monitors.

You can upload and download the manual for the HP DreamColor Color Calibration Solution B1F63AA in the following formats: *.pdf, *.doc, *.txt, *.jpg - Other formats are unfortunately not supported.

The user manual for the HP DreamColor Color Calibration Solution B1F63AA can be downloaded in .pdf format if it did not come with your new calibration, although the seller is required to supply one. It is also quite common that customers throw out the user manual with the box, or put the CD away somewhere and then can’t find it. That’s why we and other HP users keep a unique electronic library for HP calibrations, where you can use our link to download the user manual for the HP DreamColor Color Calibration Solution B1F63AA.

The user manual lists all of the functions of the HP DreamColor Color Calibration Solution B1F63AA, all the basic and advanced features and tells you how to use the calibration. The manual also provides troubleshooting for common problems. Even greater detail is provided by the service manual, which is not typically shipped with the product, but which can often be downloaded from HP service.

If you want to help expand our database, you can upload a link to this website to download a user manual or service manual, ideally in .pdf format. These pages are created by you – users of the HP DreamColor Color Calibration Solution B1F63AA. User manuals are also available on the HP website under Computers & Solutions - Monitor & Display Accessories - Calibration.

I have an Asus G750 JW that I updated with 2 SSD drives but kept the supplied 12 GB of RAM (vs adding more due to warranty issues). The calibrated display is okay & usable. Viewing angles are better than my older HP Envy. I do not see any lines when doing high 16 bit or low res edits using any software. Via Display Properties, my display is an AiO, there are 2 others that Asus uses. If you get a G750 custom built, you can "upgrade" the display to higher sRGB values, but it"s still a 6 bit display & there is no guarantee of things like brightness uniformity, tonal range, black values, etc, all of which, along the extra cost, I figured wasn"t worth it. Trying to find good sRGB display info is VERY difficult for all but the HP ZBooks & DreamColors. But laptop IPS displays are still pretty limited for what tonal range & colors they can display even if the viewing angle is better. They few that existed, were just too expensive for me in 17". The DreamColor or ZBooks while nice, I also read that they had reliability issues & so not justifying the price. Trying to get accurate & technical display info from Dell website or the reps via Chat was a nightmare & a sad joke. I decided that a higher quality external IPS monitor with minimum 100% sRGB or hopefully aRGB, was for me a better idea than chasing high quality specs on a 17" laptop. It seems that manufacturers have abandoned high quality 17" laptops as most IPS displays were offered in 14" sizes & some even smaller & one? in 15".