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Mar 18 2008<br />
X-<strong>Rite</strong> <strong>unveils</strong> <strong>ColorMunki</strong><br />
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<strong>The</strong> <strong>ColorMunki</strong> Photo's Spectrophotometer makes it<br />
easier to create a color profile for your printer.<br />
(Credit: X-<strong>Rite</strong>)<br />
DEL.ICIO.US DIGG THIS REDDIT<br />
X-<strong>Rite</strong> has announced three new color management<br />
products today under the name of <strong>ColorMunki</strong>. Two of the<br />
new products--<strong>ColorMunki</strong> Photo and <strong>ColorMunki</strong><br />
Design--will be available later this month and include<br />
Spectrophotometers and software to let you make color<br />
profiles for monitors, projectors, and printers. <strong>The</strong> third,<br />
called <strong>ColorMunki</strong> Create, won't be available until June and<br />
includes a Colorimeter instead of the fancier<br />
Spectrophotometer that ships with the other two and<br />
doesn't include printer or projector profiling. If you create a<br />
color profile for a device, then software that offers color<br />
management, such as photo editing software, can more<br />
faithfully depict the colors in a photo. <strong>The</strong> <strong>ColorMunki</strong><br />
system also lets you calibrate your monitor to help make<br />
sure that what you see is close to what you'll get from<br />
your images. When you use profiles for your entire image creation and editing work flow, you create a system in which<br />
there is at least some predictability to the outcome.<br />
All three new <strong>ColorMunki</strong> products include some cool software for working with colors. It'll let you search photos by<br />
color, and extract a color from a photo and create a coordinating palette of colors around it. <strong>The</strong> software also steps<br />
you through the calibration and profiling processes. In the case of printer profiles, the newly developed <strong>ColorMunki</strong><br />
Spectrophotometer makes the process significantly easier and quicker than most of the solutions I've seen in the past.<br />
Once you print out the test chart, all you have to do is slide the Spectrophotometer down a column of color patches,<br />
while most other solutions require that you scan each patch one at a time. <strong>The</strong> differences between the Photo and<br />
Design versions are fairly minimal and geared toward their respective audiences. For example, <strong>ColorMunki</strong> Photo<br />
includes the ability to optimize printing for specific images and enhance printer profiles for black and white images and<br />
flesh tones for portraits, while the Design version focuses more on optimization for specific colors.<br />
Both <strong>ColorMunki</strong> Photo and <strong>ColorMunki</strong> Design are expected to cost about $500, while ColoMunki Create should cost<br />
about $150 when it hits this summer.<br />
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TAGS: color management, digital imaging, monitor calibration, color profiles<br />
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