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ColorMunki Photo - Monitor, Printer & Projector Profiler | 
| Brand: X-Rite
Category: CE
Buy New: See price in cart
New (14) Used (1) from $526.85
Rating:  9 reviews
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows Xp Professional, Mac Os X
Media: Electronics
Operating System: Mac OS X
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 3.5 x 3.8 x 1.8
MPN: CMUNPH
Model: CMUNPH
EAN: 7640111922001
ASIN: B00169N0BK
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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| Features:
| • | LCD & Laptop Calibration with both easy and advanced mode. You'll master the color jungle in a snap. For more control over white point or ambient measurements use the Advanced mode. | | • | Complete color control and optimized RGB and CMYK printer profiling. Rapidly measure test charts in less than one minute. Ability to optimize for specific colors, black & white, and flesh tones from individual image types. | | • | Projector Profiling Utilizing the same profiling technology for your display. Your ColorMunki will give you fast and accurate projector profiles so you can project your images to your client family or friends with color confidence. | | • | Create and manage custom color palettes. Capture spectral color from any surface and import directly into your photo and design applications. Preview your color palettes under different lighting sources or printing processes before you go to production. | | • | Share your images with confidence with DigitalPouch. Simply drag and drop the images you want to transport into the pouch and zip it up to send. The receiver can then view the images in the same application viewing screen. |
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Product Description
ColorMunki Photo is the innovative way to bring your photos from screen to print with color perfection. Designed for wedding, social, or portrait photographers, this color control solution delivers technological features for display, projector, and RGB/CMYK printer profiling. You'll now be able to send your images to your clients, confident that they will be viewed in a calibrated environment, using the DigitalPouch communication tool. All this delivered in an all-in-one integrated solution with a streamlined interface, making the most of your digital workflow. All-in-One spectrophotometer means no separate devices needed to profile your displays and printers. ColorMunki lets you swing perfectly from screen to print with quick, easy, and accurate display-to-print match. Software guides you through whichever profiling function you desire. Select 'Match My Printer To My Display' and you'll be completely guided through the profiling process for both your display and your printer. ColorMunki can calibrate multiple displays with ease and provides before and after visualization, as well as calibration reminder prompts. ColorMunki's superfast scanning can rapidly measure test charts in less than one minute. With AppSet, ColorMunki talks with your photo and design applications to automate printer profile settings. ColorMunki automatically extracts the top colors, or you can go directly into your image and add any color to your palette. With ColorMunki's PrintSafe checking capabilities, you'll be able to preview your color palettes under different lighting sources or printing processes before you go to production.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 4 more reviews...
 Profiling is PC (pretty cool) August 9, 2008
Allen Mims (Memphis, TN USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
With 28 years as a professional photographer, I feel a mixture of delight and relief when I find a product that works so well and makes my job better and easier. Engineered for accuracy and ease of use...I love my Munki. I never had the time, but especially the patience, to profile papers the now old-fashioned way. And the Digital Pouch is quite a bonus when trying to help clients see the images correctly on their own monitors. Thank you X-Rite.
ColorMunki Photo July 25, 2008
Vernon L. Hendrix (Sylva, NC United States)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
An excellent device. Does excellent calibration in "Easy" mode. For a little more precision and options use "Advanced" mode. It is especially easy to match monitor to printer.
Great device, but beware: color calibration is not for the meek July 19, 2008
R. Kaufmann (San Diego CA USA)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
I've used a number of color calibration tools, and find the munki to be about the best for the money. (I use it on a Mac Pro with a 30" monitor and an HP B9180 printer.)
Color profiles are very tricky to use on the Mac, and even trickier on Windows. Basically, you need to make very, very sure that you're not correcting the image twice. In Lightroom, for example, there's a pulldown for whether LR or the printer manages its colors. Make sure your setting matches the printer driver's setup! (This is somewhat done for you on the Mac, but not on Windows.)
Lightroom is the easiest tool to use for printing, at least in my experience. Doing it from Photoshop is harder, and you often have to wrestle with the various settings to get it right.
Anyway, I believe this double-correction issue has more to do with the negative reviews than any problems with the device itself. The munki is very, very easy to use. A lot of stuff that would be a lot of work in other tools (e.g. color calibration targets) is all integral to the device, and well managed by the munki software. The profiles themselves are absolutely great -- at least for my setup.
Finally, if you care about getting photographs right -- both on screen and on paper -- a tool like the munki is essential. Editing photos on a well calibrated monitor will help ensure your photos will have a life beyond your current computer or screen. Imagine the trouble if you notice all your old pictures look a little greenish on your next computer. Which was right, your new machine or your old? And will you enjoy editing 5,000 pictures to fix the problem?
Bottom line: great tool for the dedicated amateur photographer. Everyone should at least calibrate their monitors. If a munki seems a little rich for your blood, then consider a Pantone Huey instead: Pantone huey MEU101
Color Munki Works Great! June 18, 2008
kixnkeys
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Using the Color Munki has saved me so much time and money that it paid for itself in the first month. It's easy to use and creates great profiles. Two things are important to know however, 1. - if you have a cheap monitor, it's going to be harder to match your prints and 2. - I found that certain fine art papers really need some extra time to dry before the color sets - on the information sheet for Epson's Somerset Velvet, it says that can take 24 hours! If you do your test prints and wait a bit before reading them in, the profiles in the soft-proof in Photoshop look really close to the print. No more hit or miss printing - I Love It!
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