Color-matched displays for portable and desktop editing

[tedr1]

I am slowly working my way towards digital color print making, I have the camera, editing software and printer, my display is a Dell mid-price desktop monitor driven by windows 7. Ideally there would be added an EIZO monitor and a new PC to drive it. However there may be a significant drawback because I also wish to edit images on a laptop and/or tablet and so far as I know EIZO don't make a matching portable device. How are others solving this challenge? It is not new, only new to me! Those with greater experience please chime in.

 

[Rockaway Studios]

Unless you have a portable printer too, don't sweat fine accuracy from a laptop or tablet, If you are printing, have the monitor in your "Lightroom" for the final color calibration because that is where you are printing anyway. Any decent laptop should have a display good enough for field editing of about anything other than fine color tuning. Then throw the work on the calibrated monitor as your final quaLity control step. In my opinion you don't want to try to do high end printing using many different displays because your printer will be calibrated precisely for exactly one display and the rest will be slightly different. I use a MacBook Pro for my field system, But a Dell XPS or Alienware will have a decent enough screen for this usage. I never have to print anything critical from a tablet so can't help you there.

The Eizo is a good choice. I saved a few bucks on a NEC PA27iw multi sync with the color right calibration spider and it does fine for quality control. Has two ports so I can toggle between the office system and my laptop.