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