ColorMunki 1.1 Proves to be a Useful Color Management Tool

It is impossible for someone not to have noticed how the colors differ while being transferred from a document you just created on your monitor to the paper resulted through the act of printing. Started with the 90s, Mac’s ColorSync has been introduced in regard to this problem, being conceived as a color manager for the framework whereas Colorton emerged as a hardware and software system to provide color calibration a professional perspective. The fact is that the way a monitor is emitting the color differs actually from the way a printing is “seeing” the same color. This happens because of the running processes in regard to the color management of each device.

But you figure that there are so many combinations of input elements (graphic software, scanners, digital cameras etc) with output possibilities (various printers , digital video, films, the variety of displays, projectors) that is almost impossible not to find the right way of rendering exactly the ‘correct’ color. In this regard one needs hardware and software of the same ‘caliber’ to keep color under control in order to determine what kind of colors the input and output devices are able to create, this process being called profiling or calibration. In this way you can find your position regarding the color-space of your workflow needing further the necessary tool to measure the accuracy, to create palette and explore the capabilities. For this you might need the X-Rite’s ColorMunki 1.1 suite of tools.

This new entry is created for professional market that comprises photographers, designers and not only, being also of a great help for the amateurs who need a better rendition of the colors. ColorMunki 1.1 suite is divided in three products: Create (a colorimeter), Design and Photo (a spectrophotometer).

The Create product of ColorMunki 1.1 is issued with a USB bus-powered colorimeter used to calibrate the monitor with its software. Its feature enables you to compose palettes of colors with the purpose of being sent to other desktop software such as Illustrator and Photoshop, allowing you to keep the consistency while using the applications. The options offered by this feature reveal a nice manner in harmonizing the colors in the way that designers might find it useful in their work. With Create options you are automatically instructed how to profile your monitor with a perfect tailoring touch.

The Design product of ColorMunki 1.1 is the feature that aim the designers and includes the same functionality of the Create’s software and the AppSet for various desktop publishing apps. It comes with an USB bus-powered spectrophotometer which reads colors from their emissive sources and reflective material to enable you to convert colors from fabric, objects or printed material. So next to the possibility to profile the monitor’s color reproduction, you are able now to profile the printer.

The Photo product is the world of tools, containing the same hardware as Design does, plus that it can grab colors from the real world, with the ability to create the same palettes and to explore the possibilities of colors rendition. It includes also an app called DigitalPouch that enables the user to ‘pack’ the images and have them sent as calibration information to other users.

ColorMunki 1.1 proves to be a useful color management tool for professional photographers and designers as well as for the users that are interested in advance design hardware and software.