I read your recent review of ColorMunki Photo and was surprised to hear about your poor experience with the display profiling functionality. My name is Stephen Rankin and I am the product manager for ColorMunki at X-Rite. Printer profiles need a few iterative passes before the entire paper gamut is accomplished, so it's worth passing a few good pictures you like (in different colour ranges) to optimise the profile properly. I have found that the profiles that the ColorMunki creates is very good. Note that I've been watching the USB data directly from the ColorMunki, so I'm not sure if the above information (about nM bands and sample size) is publically written down anywhere from X-Rite. I expect improvements in the SDK (from X-Rite) will open this possibility up for other programs to use the ColorMunki directly, but at this time it's 1st party only. You can't however easily take a measurement of ambient colour or projected colour (at this time). You can use it to capture a sample of colour using the Photo ColorPicker program by placing the ColorMunki on an object and then clicking the capture button. Helen: The ColorMunki takes 135 different nM band samples, so depending on how much is not considered at the start/end of the samples it looks to be on par with the i1. At the price of the ColorMunki it could be considered as good value solely on its performance as a print profiler. I'd also be interested in a quantitative and qualitative comparison between the ColorMunki, the PrintFix Pro and the bottom-end i1 bundles. If your review is aimed at beginners, it might be worth explaining exactly why you had to make pdf files. If I was looking for a budget spectro or an abridged spectro (I use the i1 with PM5 and a bunch of other programs) what I would be interested in seeing, after reading your review, is what you think is the cause of your problems. Your review is complementary to that information, but I felt that it left more questions than it gave answers. In short he gives an excellent introduction to the way in which the system is used and what else it can do beyond the bundled application, and what potential it has in the future. ![]() There's a lot about exactly what the processes are, how the device functions, the output resolution of the device, the format of the output data files, how the software works, how it can be used with QTR now and how QTR will provide direct support for it int he future, among other things. I read a lot of information in the three parts to Keith's review (intro, colour profiling and B&W) that was not in your review or the X-Rite literature. We're going to have to differ on that one.
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