Controls and OSD

The OSD can be accessed through a set of touch-sensitive "buttons" on the right side of the bottom bezel. While I generally despise touch controls, I have to admit EIZO did a great job with these - they're very responsive and well-organized, which makes navigating the OSD a breeze. As soon as you touch the controls, a set of quick menus will pop up on the screen. All you then have to do is press the bezel on a spot beneath the menu you want to access. Alternatively, you can use the supplied remote control, which is perhaps an even more intuitive way of navigating the OSD.


The quick menus are, from left to right, input selection (USB-C, DisplayPort, HDMI 1, HDMI 2, PbyP / PinP), picture profile selection (User1, User2, sRGB, Paper, Movie, DICOM), EcoView Settings, speaker volume, picture brightness, and main menu.


The main menu is split into six segments - Color, Signal, Preferences, EcoView Settings, Languages, and Information.


The "Color" section is where we can switch between factory picture profiles, adjust the brightness and contrast (0-100), set the color temperature (from 4,000–10,000K in 500K increments) and gamma (1.8, 2.0, 2.2, 2.4, and Paper). The "Advanced Settings" submenu contains several other options related to color reproduction and pixel response time: Overdrive (Off, Standard, or Enhanced), Hue (-50 to +50), and Saturation (also -50 to +50). The "Gain" submenu allows us to manually adjust the amount of red, green, and blue color gain on a scale from 0 to 100. This can be useful when you're trying to optimize the color performance without a calibrator or when you want to, say, filter out some of the blue color that increases eyestrain for some users.


The "Signal" menu is one most users won't ever need to dive into. The Picture Expansion option lets you adjust the pixel-mapping technique. It can be set to Aspect Ratio (aspect ratio of the input signal is maintained), Full Screen (the input signal is stretched over the entire panel), and Dot by Dot (1:1 pixel mapping). The Input Color Format option lets us pick between RGB and YUV color encoding systems. You'll want to keep it on "Auto." The same goes for the Input Range option, which can also be set to Full (corresponds to the RGB range of 0–255) and Limited (RGB range of 16–235).


The "Preferences" menu allows us to turn the Power Save feature on and off (keep it on), adjust the brightness of the discrete front-facing white power LED, and reset the monitor. Within the USB Selection submenu you can also tie the two HDMI and DisplayPort video inputs to USB Type-B or USB-C upstream ports, depending on your planned use case for them.


In the EcoView Settings you can toggle the Auto EcoView and EcoView Optimizer 2 features, covered on the previous page of this review, on and off.


The "Languages" menu is pretty self-explanatory, and the "Information" menu exposes the serial number and version of the monitor, its resolution and refresh rate, and total usage time.


There's also a hidden Administrator Settings OSD menu, accessed by turning the monitor off and then pressing the remote's leaf button and "On" button immediately afterward. Here we can toggle the auto input detection, the built-in Ethernet port and on-screen logo, lock the touch-sensitive buttons, factory reset the monitor, adjust the behavior of the USB hub when using the USB-C input, limit the HDMI ports to 4K@30 Hz, and activate the so-called Compatibility Mode. EIZO suggests doing so if you're facing one (or more) of the following issues:

• The positions of windows and icons are shifted when the monitor is turned off/on or has returned from the power saving mode
• Even when the mouse or keyboard are used, the PC does not return from sleep
• When the power to the monitor is turned off, a device connected to the USB downstream port does not work, or power is not supplied to the connected device
• When the power to the monitor is turned off, power is not supplied to devices connected to the USB-C connector