Another spit wad (Geek advice wanted)

I was hoping the first time my 2-1/2-year-old monitor flickered a few days ago, it was a power surge (and yes, I do have a surge protector). Same the second time, when it didn't just flicker, but got all bright and then toned down again.. But it just decided to go into lovely magenta hues for a few minutes. I think it's dying... and of course, the service plan expired last March.

Darn. I don't have time for this.

It's an Envision monitor, flat screen. Anyone have any recommendations for flat screen monitors?

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?*

* (as kendokamel would say)

Last May, I wrote a brochure about the UU meetinghouse's stained glass windows. I had 50 color photocopies run off at a print shop as a draft version, with the intention of doing a glossy four-color offset print run at some future date. I was thrilled to have found some Arts & Crafts-era fonts on line to use in the brochure, and bought the CD.

EDIT:

( That post here, with link to the fonts )

So this week, in the midst of everything else, I needed to update the copy a little. We're having another of the public lecture series on Sunday, and I want brochures available, with a inserted slip asking for donations to help us restore the windows. I went to the print shop and pulled out my CD with the Quark document and photos on it. And I was told, by the same person I've dealt with before (who is very nice and knowledgeable, so this is not a complaint), that they couldn't print a proof of the brochure for me to sign off on because it used fonts they don't have, and their computer was substituting Arial for them. She told me I need to come back with the font CD, which they'll install, and then uninstall there after the job is done to make it all copyright-law-happy.

This left me scratching my head. Did I actually go to a different print shop in May? There are several in town. I use this one for my own town's newsletter and for the UU Emily Dickinson brochure, but maybe I went somewhere else? My memory can be leaky at times.

I just looked through my records, and I did run off the 50 copies there! With no problems about not having the fonts.

What's changed? (This is just a rhetorical question, unless a geek out there actually knows the answer.)

Anyway, it means I have to go back there tomorrow or Friday. Good thing I didn't try to get the thing printed at the last minute.

More computer monitor advice sought

Anyone have anything to say about Samsung LCD monitors? (Before my current Envision monitor gives out...)