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.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0
Much Promise, But A Very Poor Payoff:
I'm using Vista Ultimate, have lots of ram, an Epson 3800 and have experienced many "issues" with my Color Munki Photo. The problems started the first day I plugged it in over three months ago. The unit has been replaced by the manufacturer without avail. There are serious conflicts with Vista color correction (Microsoft has culpability here too), but it's advertised to work with Vista OS yet I've yet to get good color corrections. Support by X-Rite swings between helpful through downright... more info
Five Star (except):
Don't know what the negitive reviews are about. Just opened the box an hour ago and have both monitor and printer profiled. Was very easy, just follow the on-screen instructions. You do however have to have a good working knowledge of you printer and the application you are printing from. You must turn off the printers Color Management and be able to select the printer profile saved after running Colormunki in the application you are printing from. The "exception" in the title of this review is that as... more info
Do Your Homework First!:
I've had the ColorMunki for a couple months now. I really hate to write bad reviews on what seems to potentially be a great product, so I've waited until I cooled down some. But this product has a variety of problematic issues and is not for the color management novice. I bought it based on reviews I had read about it which were mostly very good. If, when you install the software and create a monitor profile and if it installs without problems, and if you can figure out how to locate and set up the new... more info
Acts like a preproduction prototype:
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. 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:
Disc doesn't have actual code, just sends you to their site to download 250MB of file.
Link didn't work, had to go directly there to get it. Download gagged twice before success.
Limited to... more info
