Product DescriptionYour 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.
What Others Say
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 load on 3 machines, which is not enough for us, but I figured a way to cheat it.
No "CRT" choice in cal menu, use LCD.
Only 3 fixed color temps.
Won't handle multiple monitors in Win XP without a prog from MS called ... Read More
Does exactly what I hoped it would do; some customer support reservations
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 ... Read More
Poor Software & Beware of Activation Limit
Several issues with ColorMunki Photo - Monitor, Printer & Projector Profiler, all software related. I haven't gotten far enough to qualify the icc results. First of all, the CD you receive has nothing on it except a small application that downloads the actual software. So, no internet connection, no calibration. I was installing on a laptop, and luckily was at home. Second, you only get three machine activations of the software.. after that I guess your Colormunki becomes an expensive paperweight. Good thing my camera isn't restricted to 3 machines, or I'd really be in trouble. You also need that internet connection to "activate" your software. Under OSX it seems to only activate it for a single account. Thirdly, I was only able to calibrate one of my two monitors, the software produces an errors ... Read More
Technical problems, hostile support , just be aware
I am new to color management - but not to software engineering and release having done support, engineering, test and release since 1982 in the retail and enterprise space.
I think I am one of the CM's target market segments being a part time wedding and portrait photographer. I am using an Epson Stylus pro 3800.
Downloading and installing version 1.05 at 364 MB and using it as my base install on a Vista home premium, x64 SP1 system here are my observations:
Tehe install requires .net and java - making it quite long to install and cluttering up your machine - this was on a new dual core 3 Ghz system, it took about 42 minutes to install.
1. monitor profiles do not stick, they disappear after UAC or on resume from ... Read More
Can't be beat at this price point!!!
This is the third color calibration system I have used. It's really great but has benefits and limitations that I will outline below:
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.
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 ... Read More
