Hi, I am new to the forum and would like to get your thoughts on the following.  I received a 2007WFP monitor with an XPS 410 eight days ago.  I like the monitor in general but can't live with the following issues.  The first is that the text in Word which I use a lot looks gray instead of black.  If you look closely at the black text, there is a reddish hue around vertical portion of the letter such as T.  It is also observed with blue text making it look purplish.  This phenomena also makes the text look less sharp.  The second is that colors in general looks washed out compared to my old crt monitor, an LCD Viewsonic VG910b that I use at work and the LCD on my IBM Thinkpad.  I have tried to adjust the settings to no avail. A replacement monitor is on the way.  On Dell-Chris' recommendation, I performed the CheckeMON color spectrum test on the old monitor, the new 2007WFP and the IBM Thinkpad and only the 2007WFP exhibited color stepping banding.  Is the banding an explanation for the previously mentioned problems?

 

I had this buried in another thread but because some of the issues mentioned maybe outside of the scope of that thread i decided to post separately. 

 

Thanks in advance for your help.

 

savjam