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ColorMunki Photo - Monitor, Printer Projector Profiler | 
| Brand: X-Rite
Category: CE
List Price: $499.00
Buy New: $406.18
You Save: $92.82 (19%)
New (17) Used (1) from $526.85
Rating:  24 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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Product Description
Your best friend for matching prints to display with color perfection. Ideal for wedding, portrait and event photographers - or any passionate advocate - this completely integrated color control solution delivers the latest technology to calibrate your displays, projectors and printers for accurate color matching. It's also loaded with color creation and communication tools that allow you to send your images with DigitalPouch and create unlimited color palettes! So whether you work on a PC or Mac, ColorMunki Photo is the innovative way to bring your photos from screen to print accurately, simply and affordably.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 19 more reviews...
 Acts like a preproduction prototype November 28, 2008
Dave Crossley (Albuquerque)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
We have a custom studio with many monitors, a printer and a projector. Our Spyder is long in the tooth and won't do projectors, hence the Munki. br / br /Numerous other posters complained about the crummy software, but didn't dissuade me because I never saw all the problems listed in one place. Here we go: br /Disc doesn't have actual code, just sends you to their site to download 250MB of file. br /Link didn't work, had to go directly there to get it. Download gagged twice before success. br /Limited to load on 3 machines, which is not enough for us, but I figured a way to cheat it. br /No "CRT" choice in cal menu, use LCD. br /Only 3 fixed color temps. br /Won't handle multiple monitors in Win XP without a prog from MS called Color Tool. br /No gamma control. br /No profile naming. br / br /After fighting thru all that, then the hardware fun starts: br /Hang straps are a joke. Most people who cal also have a screen hood so they CAN'T work. br /Device frequently gets in an endless CAL/SET loop and has to be reinitialized. br /Who thought of this stupid zipper case that must be removed and replaced during the CAL sequence? br /The profile created is pretty good on both my displays and the projector. Probably better than the Spyder BUT, the "measure room light" option is whacko. Turn it off and the profile looks like a 60's album cover even in complete darkness. br / br /The fact is, I know of nothing near the price that will do all this. Version 2 probably will be fine , but be prepared for a load of hassle.
 Does exactly what I hoped it would do; some customer support reservations November 28, 2008
Comdet
I decided to get the Colormunki after struggling for over a year to get my Canon Pro9000 printer to produce prints that were consistently accurate representations of my photos, as they looked on my monitor - I had a monitor calibrator, but that's only one part of what you need in color management. I had used generic profiles for the paper I was using in the past and did all thing things you are supposed to do with the color management settings to get things right, but still experienced highly inconsistent results. After much reading, I determined that getting custom profiles for my printer/paper combinations might be the way to go. The Colormunki allows you to profile your printer specifically for the paper you are using, in addition to calibrating your monitor. br / br /The profiler controls are easily understood and engaged; in order to profile the printer you will need to use at least two sheets of whatever paper you are profiling, and you will need to profile for each type of paper you use - each paper gets its own custom profile - so there is some initial expenditure of ink and paper to get your profiles ready. But that's nothing compared to the ink and paper you would have wasted trying to get an acceptable print without a custom profile, so I don't see that as a disadvantage. br / br /Things did not go smoothly at first though - you're supposed to use the Colormunki to scan a series of color patches and when I first printed out my color patches my printer was apparently low on magenta and did not properly print out the patches that had magenta in it. I was unaware of that, and as I attempted to scan the patches, the Colormunki would simply tell me the scan had failed and not offer any tips as to where to begin locating the point of failure. It wasn't until I used the online help and wandered in and out of several articles (their online article resource is not well-organized) that I finally stumbled on a sentence that pointed me in the right direction. Once over that hurdle, the profiling proceeded very quickly and very easily. I was then able to make more profiles without any hitches at all. But my review gets 4 stars instead of 5, as I believe the makers of Colormunki could have done a much better job in creating and organizing the help documentation. There needs to be more of an effort on their part to address the questions that might arise for a user that has no knowledge of the finer points of color profiling - their help documentation seems to gloss over a number of things, or assume that the user would already know them. Given that the product is marketed to the general consumer, this is potentially a serious misstep on their part. br / br /I cannot speak for the projector profiler feature as I do not have a use for that and have not tested it. br / br /In summary, I've seen a vast improvement in the color accuracy of my prints since using the Colormunki, but be aware that troubleshooting any problems with this product can lead to a lot of frustration if you don't already have the expertise that would help you know where to start looking.
 Can't be beat at this price point!!! November 7, 2008
Eric J. Robertson (New York, NY)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is the third color calibration system I have used. It's really great but has benefits and limitations that I will outline below: br / br /Generally, until now, being able to calibrate your monitor AND your prints has been impossible without spending $1000 or more. Of course, if you are a high end production photographer or someone who requires perfect calibration for pre-press, then this is not the tool for you. br / br /This is a great tool for an advanced amateur who is satisfied with really decent monitor to print accuracy, but not absolutely perfect results. It gets you about 90% there. I use it to give my printer an advance look at what I think my digital files are capable of, as a guide to creating a final print. I also use it for all the home printing so that I don't waste paper. It's saved a bundle of $$ so far not to have to print twice! br / br /I won't go into all the nitty gritty. The software is fairly intuitive, especially compared with the higher end products. It's a quick process - about 30 minutes from start to finish to set it up if your printer is already installed. br / br /I found it to be a little less accurate with Black and White printing than color. br / br /The best part is that with LCD screens you only have to calibrate once and it lasts as long as you have the printer. Find a friend who also wants to calibrate and share the cost. br / br /You'll be pleased to finally be able to hit the print button and get what you expect from you printer!!! Good luck!
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