Philips 221s3lsb User Manual

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2.3 Remove Base Stand and Base
Remove the Base Stand
221S3/221S3L
Place the monitor face on a safe surface, release 
the stand lock and pull the base stand away 
from the base column.
.
221S3L plus
Before you star t disassembling the monitor 
base, please follow the instructions below to 
avoid damage or injur y.
1. Extend the monitor base to its maximum 
height.
2. Place the monitor face down on a smooth 
surface, taking care to avoid scratching or 
damaging the screen. Then lift the monitor 
stand.
3. Release the lock of base stand then pull the 
base stand away from the base column.
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Remove the Base
Condition:
‡For VESA standard mounting applications.
221S3L plus
1. Remove the 8 screw covers.
.
2. Remove the 4 screws and then remove the 
base from the monitor.
221S3L SEB
1. Push the release button.
2. Remove the base from the monitor.
Note
This monitor accepts a 100mm x 100mm 
VESA-Compliant mounting interface.
100mm
100mm
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3. Image Optimization
3.1 SmartImage
What is it?
Smar tImage provides presets that optimize 
display for different types of content, dynamically 
adjusting brightness, contrast, color and 
sharpness in real time. Whether you're working 
with text applications, displaying images or 
watching a video, Philips Smar tImage delivers 
great optimized monitor performance. 
Why do I need it? 
You want a monitor that delivers optimized 
display all your favorite types of content, 
Smar tImage software dynamically adjust 
brightness, contrast, color and sharpness in 
real time to enhance your monitor viewing 
experience.
How does it work? 
Smar tImage is an exclusive, leading edge Philips 
technology that analyzes the content displayed 
on your screen. Based on a scenario you select, 
Smar tImage dynamically enhances the contrast, 
color saturation and sharpness of images to 
enhance the contents being displayed - all in 
real time with the press of a single button.
How to enable SmartImage?
1. Press to launch the Smar tImage on 
screen display.
2. Keep pressing 
 to toggle between Office, 
Photo, Movie, Game, Economy and Off.
3. The Smar tImage on screen display will 
remain on screen for 5 seconds, or you can 
also press "OK" to make confirmation.
4. When Smar tImage is enabled, the sRGB 
scheme is disabled automatically. To use 
sRGB, you need to disable Smar tImage 
with the 
 button at the front bezel of 
your monitor.
Except using
key to scroll down, you can also 
press
buttons to choose and press “OK” 
to confirm selection and close the Smar tImage 
OSD.
There are six modes to select: Office, Photo, 
Movie, Game, Economy and Off.
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							12 vOffice: Enhances text and dampens 
brightness to increase readability and 
reduce eye strain. This mode significantly 
enhances readability and productivity when 
you’re working with spreadsheets, PDF files, 
scanned ar ticles or other general office 
applications.
vPhoto: This profile combines color 
saturation, dynamic contrast and sharpness 
enhancement to display photos and other 
images with outstanding clarity in vibrant 
colors - all without ar tifacts and faded 
colors.
vMovie: Ramped up luminance, deepened 
color saturation, dynamic contrast and 
razor sharpness displays ever y details in 
darker areas of your videos without color 
washout in brighter areas maintaining a 
dynamic natural values for the ultimate 
video display.
vGame: Turn on over drive circuit for best 
response time, reduce jaggy edges for fast 
moving objects on screen, enhance contrast 
ratio for bright and dark scheme, this 
profile delivers the best gaming experience 
for gamers.
vEconomy: Under this profile, brightness, 
contrast are adjusted and backlighting 
finetuned for just right display of ever yday 
office applications and lower power 
consumption.
vOff: No optimization by Smar tImage.
3.2 SmartContrast
What is it? 
Unique technology that dynamically analyzes 
displayed content and automatically optimizes 
a Monitor's contrast ratio for maximum visual 
clarity and viewing enjoyment, stepping up 
backlighting for clearer, crisper and brighter 
images or dimming backlighting for clear display 
of images on dark backgrounds. 
Why do I need it? 
You want the ver y best visual clarity and 
viewing comfor t for ever y type of content. 
Smar tContrast dynamically controls contrast 
and adjusts backlighting for clear, crisp, bright 
gaming and video images or displays clear, 
readable text for office work. By reducing your 
monitor's power consumption, you save on 
energy costs and extend the lifetime of your 
monitor. 
How does it work? 
When you activate Smar tContrast, it will analyse 
the content you are displaying in real time to 
adjust colors and control backlight intensity. This 
function will dynamically enhance contrast for a 
great enter tainment experience when viewing 
videos or playing games.
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3.3 Philips SmartControl Premium
The new Smar tControl Premium software 
by Phillips allows you to control your monitor 
via an easy to use on-screen graphic interface.  
Complicated adjustments are a thing of the 
past as this user friendly software guides you 
through
fine-tuning resolution, Color calibration, 
Clock/Phase adjustments, RGB White point 
adjustment, etc.  
Equipped with latest technology in core 
algorithm for fast processing and response, this 
Windows 7 compliant eye catching animated 
Icon based software is ready to enhance your 
experience with Philips monitors!
Installation
vFollow the instruction and complete the 
installation. 
vYou can launch after installation is 
completed. 
vIf you want to launch later, you can either 
click the shor tcut on desktop or toolbar.
First launch -Wizard
‡The f irst time af ter installation of Smar t-
Control Premium, it will automatically go 
to Wizard for f irst time launch. 
‡The wizard will guide you through adjust-
ment your monitor per formance step by 
step. ‡You can go to Plug-in menu to launch 
wizard later on as well. 
‡You can adjust more options without 
wizard by Standard pane.
Start with Standard pane
Adjust menu
‡Adjust Menu allow you to adjust Bright-
ness, Contrast, Focus, Position and Reso-
lution. 
‡You can follow the instruction and do the 
adjustment. 
‡Cancel prompts user if you want to cancel 
installation. 
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Color menu 
‡Color Menu allow you to adjust RGB, 
Black Level, White Point, Color Calibra-
tion, and Smar tImage (Please refer to 
Smar tImage section). 
‡You can follow the instruction and do the 
adjustment. 
‡Refer to below table for sub-menu item 
base on your input. 
‡Example for Color Calibration.
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1. "Show Me" star ts color calibration tutorial. 
2. Star t - star ts the 6-step color calibration 
sequence. 
3. Quick View loads the before/after images. 
4. To return to Color home pane, click the 
Cancel button. 
5. Enable color calibration - by default is on. 
If unchecked, does not allow for color 
calibration to happen, dimes out star t and 
quick view buttons. 
6. Must have patent info in calibration screen.
First color Calibration Screen 
‡Previous button is disabled until the sec-
ond color screen. 
‡Nex t goes to the succeeding target 
(6 -t a r get s). 
‡Finally go to File > Presets pane. 
‡Cancel closes the UI and returns to the 
plug in page.
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SmartImage
Allows user to change setting for better display 
setting based on content.
When Enter tainment is set, Smar tContrast and 
Smar tResponse are enabled.
ECO
Theft Deterrence Pane will only be active when 
selecting Theft Deterrence Mode from the 
drop-down Plug Ins menu.
To enable Theft Deterrence, clicking Enable 
Theft Deterrence Mode button brings up the 
following screen:
‡User can enter PIN between 4 and 9 digits 
numbers only. 
‡After entering PIN, Accept button takes 
user to the pop-up dialog box on the fol-
lowing page. 
‡Minimum minutes set to 5. Slider set to 5 
by default. 
‡Does not require the display be attached 
to a different host to go into Thef t Deter-
rence mode.
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							17 After creating PIN, the Theft Deterrence pane 
will indicate Theft Deterrence Enabled and 
provide PIN Options button:
‡Theft Deterrence Enabled is displayed. 
‡Disable Thef t Deterrence Mode opens 
pane screen on next page. 
‡PIN Options button only available af ter 
user creates PIN, button opens secure 
PIN web site.
Options>Preferences - Will only be active 
when selecting Preferences from the drop-
down Options menu. On a non-suppor ted 
display capable of DDC/CI, only the Help and 
Options tabs are available.
‡Displays current preference settings. 
‡A checked box enables the feature. The 
check box is a toggle. 
‡Enable Contex t Menu on desk top is 
checked (On) by default. Enable Contex t 
menu displays Smar tControl Premium se-
lections for Select Preset and Tune Display 
in the desk top right-click contex t menu. 
Disabled removes Smar tControl Premium 
from the right click contex t menu. 
‡Enable Task Tray icon is checked (On) by 
default. Enable contex t menu shows the 
task tray menu for Smar tControl Pre-
mium. A right click on the task tray icon 
displays the menu options for Help, Tech-
nical Suppor t. Check for Update, About, 
and Exit. When Enable task tray menu is 
disabled, the task tray icon will only display 
EXIT. 
‡Run at Star tup is checked (On) by default. 
When disabled, Smar tControl Premium 
will not launch at star t or be in the task 
tray. The only way to launch Smar tControl 
Premium is either from the desk top shor t 
cut or from the program f ile. Any preset 
set to run at star tup will not load when 
this box is unchecked (Disabled). 
‡Enable transparency mode  (Windows 7, 
Vista, XP). Default is 0% Opaque.
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							18 Options>Input - Will only be active when 
selecting Input from the drop-down Options 
menu. On a non-suppor ted display capable of 
DDC/CI, only the Help and Options tabs are 
available. All other Smar tControl Premium tabs 
are not available.
‡Display the Source instruction pane and 
current input source setting. 
‡On single input displays, this pane will not 
be visible.
Options>Audio - Will only be active when 
selecting Audio from the drop-down Options 
menu.
On a non-suppor ted display capable of DDC/
CI, only the Help and Options tabs are available. 
Option>Auto Pivot
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