Evolving Output Mediums (D1)

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Evolving Output Mediums:

Monitors:

In the late 1980s CRT monitors were commonly used in the creation of graphical images. CRT monitors provided good colour depth for the creation of graphical images. A major disadvantage to the CRT monitor was the fact that they came in small sizes. This was an issue because bigger screen sizes allow for higher resolution image creation.

This issue was solved with the introduction of the LCD monitor. The LCD monitor allowed for a larger screen size and kept good colour depth. The LCD monitor is still used in many products such as laptops.

LCD monitors have been improved with IPS technology. This technology is useful in term of graphical design, because it allows for a strong viewing angle and it displays deeper colours correctly. This technology has improved the efficiency of graphical design

 

Printers:

Printers are a very important aspect of digital graphics, because it allows digital graphics to be into a physical graphic. Printers have been improving in the amount of dots per inch (DPI) ever since the first inkjet was released in 1998. A high DPI is vital for the best quality images, without a high DPI the images that a printer produces are of a poor quality.

Printers have also been evolving in term of their connectivity. Printers now come with Wi-Fi capabilities, this allows for wireless printing. Wireless printing is now an important part of most work places, and makes printing for employees a lot easier and less time consuming.

Printers have also started to included other technology such as scanners, this is particularly useful in terms of digital graphics because it allows a physical graphic to be converted to a digital graphic that can then be manipulated.

Phones:

Mobile phones are an example of an output medium for digital graphics that is rapidly evolving. Mobile phones have evolved from being limited to only making phone calls, to now being able to take 1080p videos and edit them. This is a quite a drastic leap considering how quickly this evolution happened.

Companies such adobe are now capitalising on how effective mobile phone are as an output medium, by realising apps such as “Photoshop express”, applications such as this provide mobile users with some of the features they would get from the PC versions of these products