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September 26th, 2007 17:00

2007FP bleeding fonts

Hi, I'm running my near-new 2007FP connected by DVI to a 7600GS video card in my Dimension 9200.   Overall picture quality is very good, save for one maddening issue.  That issue is color bleeding/shadowing from vertical fonts (such as l or i) when the font color should be black and most often against a black white background.
 
The shadowing is always to the right of the font's body and is a reddish brown color.  I've tried every suggestion offered in these forums (that I could locate - including a similar issue discussed here:http://www.dellcommunity.com/supportforums/board/message?board.id=dim_monitor&thread.id=77200&view=by_date_ascending&page=2 ) for adjusting the monitor with only negligible improvement at best.  
 
The effect is most obvious in Outlook Express using an Arial font but appears in other programs and web pages which use various other fonts.   For example, the word "will" appears in the posting tip above and those two letter Ls are distorted by the bleed.  
 
This monitor replaced a 1905FP which had no such issues and my wife now thoroughly enjoys. 
 
I don't need a tweak sheet as I've tried all the tweaks to be found on this forum... I don't need to be told to change resolution or refresh rate or reset defaults - those things have been done repeatedly.
 
I do need a fix for this issue even if it means a replacement monitor.


Message Edited by undy on 09-28-2007 11:34 AM
  • Windian

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    Posted September 27th, 2007 16:00

    undy, 
     
    At the risk of being a bit off-topic - do you get any larger-scale bleeding (smearing) to the right of things (such as table or window top/bottom borders)?  Or is it all just at the scale of characters?
     
    (My 2007FP has that larger scale problem. I did do some ClearType tuning to improve character rendering on it.)
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    Posted September 28th, 2007 15:00

    No, I've only noticed it on fonts - but I really do not work with tables enough to be a good check in that regard.
     
    I've solved the problem (temporarily) by turning off ALL font smoothing.   Text looks terrible but still not as distracting as the color bleed.   Up in the air about requesting a replacement - might wind up with no improvement or an even worse performer.
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    Posted November 3rd, 2007 01:00

    Hi Windian,
    I have a Dell Ultrasharp 2007fp and I am getting the smearing to the right with text and any windows open on my desktop.  What did you do to fix this.  I am running XP home on a VGA analog connection. 
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    Posted November 6th, 2007 15:00

    It turned out to be a problem with the VGA cable. If I flexed the cable in the middle, the shadow/smearing fluctuated.