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Xrite CMUNDIS ColorMunki Display

by X-Rite
4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (70 customer reviews)

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  • Ambient Light Measurement - automatically determine the optimum display luminance for comparing prints to your display
  • Flare Correct measures & adjusts your display profile for reduced contrast ratios caused by flare light (or glare) falling on surface
  • An adaptive technology that produces optimized results for maximum color accuracy on each unique display every time.
  • The intensity or amount of ambient light surrounding your workspace affects the way you perceive colors on your display.
  • An adaptive technology that produces optimized results for maximum color accuracy on each unique display every time you profile.
  • (ADC) technology automates the adjustment of your display?s hardware brightness, backlight, contrast, and color temperature

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Technical Details

  • USB Powered
  • Minimum RAM: 1024

Product Details

  • Product Dimensions: 3 x 3 x 4 inches ; 8.8 ounces
  • Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
  • ASIN: B0055MBQOM
  • Item model number: CMUNDIS
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (70 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #218 in Camera & Photo (See Top 100 in Camera & Photo)
  • Date first available at Amazon.com: June 14, 2011

Product Description

From the Manufacturer



  ColorMunki Smile ColorMunki Display i1Display Pro
  ColorMunki Smile ColorMunki Display i1Display Pro
  ENTRY LEVEL ADVANCED LEVEL PRO LEVEL
Recommended For Photo and design enthusiasts, gamers and web browsing Serious & professional photographers and designers Professional photographers, designers and imaging pros
Proficiency Level Beginner Beginner to Intermediate Intermediate to Advanced
User Experience Wizard driven ease with good results Wizard driven ease with professional results Wizard driven ease and/or user defined with professional results
FEATURES
Monitor Calibration & Profiling
Projector Profiling
Supports Multiple Displays Display Match feature Save, share & reuse workflows
X-Rite ADC (Automatic Display Control)
Ambient Light Measurement
Ambient Light Correction Over Time
Monitor Advanced Calibration Better Best
Before & After Comparison Visual pre-defined image Visual pre-defined & user defined Visual pre-defined & user defined; Numeric dE, passs/fail tolerances, display trending
Pre-defined Options for Calibration Settings   Luminance, White Point and Tone Response Luminance, White Point and Tone Response
Advanced & Custom Calibration Settings     Luminance, White Point, Contrast Ratio, Characterization Target, Image Optimization
Pantone Color Optimization    
Profile Quality Analysis    
Display Uniformity Test    

Product Description

For creative folks who demand professional quality coupled with an easy, wizard-driven interface, ColorMunki Display offers everything you could possibly need to get you to a brilliantly-calibrated display or projector while helping you stay focused on doing what you love. For Color Perfectionists seeking simplicity, the ColorMunki Display will absolutely amaze you. Enhanced features include: Technologically advanced and ergonomic multi-functional measurement device. Easy to use software - "Easy" and "Advanced" modes with simple one-click presets or wizard-driven options for more control. Intelligent Iterative Profiling - an adaptive technology that measures and analyzes the color capabilities of each unique display for increased accuracy of profile+Ambient Light Smart Control - measurement, compensation and ongoing monitoring of ambient lighting conditions+Flare Correct - measurement and compensation of display surface glare +Automatic Display Control (ADC) adjusts your display’s hardware to speed up process and eliminate manual adjustments.

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129 of 135 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Comparing to the i1Display August 30, 2011
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First, my disclaimer. I received this for free through Amazon Vine. Anyone's review that displays the Vine badge also received this for free. I review all of the things I receive as if I had paid for them for maintaining my review integrity.

As I also received the Xrite EODIS3 i1Display Pro from Amazon Vine, I will approach this review by comparing the two devices. The reason being that someone in the market for color calibration will definitely see these two devices and wonder which is the better device to spend their money on.

For informational purposes, I am using a Windows 7 Professional 64 bit Lenovo T410 with 6 GB of RAM. I have not tried this on a Mac as I do not own one, though the manual claims it will work on Mac OS 10.5 or 10.6 with the latest updates installed.

Packaging:

Not too surprisingly, the packaging for the ColorMunki and the i1 Display Pro are nearly identical. The box is the same size and shape. The only difference between the two is the cover art and description on the back of the boxes.

Manual:

The manual is EXACTLY the same, with the exception of the i1Display name is changed to ColorMunki in the ColorMunk manual obviously. Seriously. They are exactly the same, word for word, picture for picture.

And this manual is a JOKE. It should be treated as merely a quick start guide, as it is called, as it doesn't contain any troubleshooting information or anything else of use outside of installing the software and plugging in the device/using the software. It's minimalist.

Software install:

Process is much the same. I HIGHLY recommend, to avoid frustration, that you head over to X-Rite's website and download the latest version of the software and NOT use the disc included. The included disc is one version old compared to the updated version available.

The software requires a reboot, so be sure you aren't doing anything else in the background when it installs.

Hardware/Software:

The hardware device looks the same and functions the same as the i1Display Pro with the exception of a few color changes.

The software looks different but provides similar functionality. Each offers advanced and basic operation (basic is just put the device on the screen and keep hitting next, advanced allows you to choose luminance and also calibrates your brightness and contrast). The nice thing that is missing from the ColorMunki software is the Printer Calibration add on.

Calibration on the ColorMunki took 5 minutes to complete. The basic color patch, that seemed the same to me between the two pieces of software, took the i1Display Pro only about 2.5 minutes to complete. So the ColorMunki is about half as slow as the i1Display Pro. The other difference is that the i1Display Pro allows you to use large color patches to calibrate. Using the largest patch on the i1Display Pro, calibration took me 8 minutes or so while the medium sized patch took about 5 minutes.

So here's the most important part of this review and comparison. The ColorMunki's profile/calibration is as good as the i1Display Pro. I have switched between the two device's color profiles and can see no discernible difference between the two profiles. No difference AT ALL. The two device provided profiles that look identical to my eyes.

Then the question you will be, so what are the differences?

Other than the color of the device and different packaging colors, here are the major differences:

i1Display has ambient light measurements for color and luminance, the ColorMunki only does Luminance. This is only a consideration if you choose to use the option on either device, outside of calibration, to have your color profile update based on ambient light conditions (which also requires either device to be plugged in all the time).

i1Display is faster (X-Rite claims 5x, but based on my testing it seemed more like 2x)

The i1Display Pro offers Predefined, Custom or Measured White Point and White Luminance while the ColorMunki offers only Predefined for these options. For these, I would say if you are a hobbyist like me, you probably aren't going to be messing that deeply with the White options from these devices. Professionals WILL want the i1Display Pro for sure.

i1Display Pro allows you to save Work Flows for future use, the ColorMunki does not. For most hobbyists, this won't be an issue and for a lot of professionals it may not be that significant either.

ColorMunki Tone Response Predefined options (1.8, 2.2) while i1Display Pro is Predefined (1.8, 2.2, 3.0, sRGB). I'm not sure what the difference between these options so I can't comment.

The i1Display Pro offers Characterization Target via Iterative and Optimized based on PANTONE colors or specific images while the ColorMunki only offers Iterative. There is no clear explanation given on X-Rite's website to explain the difference and the pitiful "manuals" certainly don't help.

The i1Display Pro offers Display Quality Assurance (you can run all sorts of tests with the i1Display Pro to validate calibrations and different displays), Display Uniformity Test (this tells you how good/bad 9 cross sections of your display are so you know the best areas of a display to work on for color critical applications) and Numeric Display Matching (both devices offer Visual validation, that is, shows you the difference, only the i1Display Pro offers you numeric values for validation purposes).

The $80 question (the price difference between the two devices) comes down to a hobbyist to speed. If you are OK spending 5 minutes calibrating the display instead of only taking 2.5, then the ColorMunki is the device to buy. The profiles are nearly identical (as best I can tell) and both do a great job of calibrating displays.

If you are a professional, you will be much better served buying the Xrite EODIS3 i1Display Pro. You likely know what you want your white set to and most likely have a need for constant calibrations for color accuracy. It is also nice that, while initially confusing for me, that you have the Printer Profiling capability built into the software, as most likely as a professional you will want what comes out of your printer to be as close to as exactly the same as what you see on your displays. As a hobbyist, I won't ever be there though given the price of Printer Profiling hardware.

I am a HOBBYIST. I don't need to validate my display to ensure my colors are accurate for anyone other than myself. (**PLEASE SEE EDIT BELOW**) For me, as the ColorMunki and i1Display Pro can be treated as single use devices (for most hobbyists, once you've calibrated the display, you're pretty much done with the device unless you REALLY have a desire for the ambient light sensor functionality), I would have been happy with just using the ColorMunki on my displays. I guess you could wind up using them again in the future with the purchase of a new display, but really the ColorMunki is the device of choice, in my mind, for hobbyists like me.

Over all, as a hobbyist, I would be quite happy with just a ColorMunki alone. Professionals will need the i1Display Pro.

EDIT- So after doing a more thorough investigation on display calibration, the prevailing logic is that your displays change over time. While going through a digital imaging class, it seems that the recommendation is once a week or once every other week for proper calibration. I'd say that's probably more for professional level (and maybe once a day calibration if you are a professional!). As a hobbyist, I'm finding my display isn't changing enough to justify the minute levels of calibration I see on a weekly to bi-weekly basis to put it back into proper calibration that frequently. Once a month seems to do me just fine, and even then calibration doesn't require more than a brightness tweak, if anything at all.
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80 of 83 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Great value, good colors August 1, 2011
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First, I'm an old Photoshop user with over 18 years of experience. For me accurate colors are not an option, I NEED accurate colors.

Second, I'm used to calibrating my displays by hand. I have set of calibration images I have used effectively across the years. Manual calibration has become difficult as the number of displays I use in a day has increased. One thing is to get decent colors and another to have multiple displays have the SAME colors.

Third, I have the Pantone Huey Pro and I was never totally happy with the results. I could always see some kind of color cast on the result so I ended having to tweak the resulting color profile by hand.

I got the ColorMunki because it seemed like an upgrade from the legendary X-Rite i1Display. I did find some reviews for the ColorMunki but they all used the more expensive model, the Xrite i1Display Pro for their reviews. Still, after careful study I determined that the added features of the i1Display Pro model were not relevant to my needs. The ColorMunki had all the features and parameters I was looking for.

The included software was easy to use. There was an update on the X-Rite site for the software but it looked like a small update.

I went through the menus, follow instructions. Calibration took like 5 minutes. It measures ambient light and has the option to compensate for changing lighting conditions. This is an option I don't care much for but is there is you want it. You need to leave the ColorMunki connected to your computer for this.

During calibration the ColorMunki actually took control of my monitor settings. Changing contrast, brightness, color balance and then adding a color profile to Windows. I was VERY impressed and the results were better than anything I have ever seen.

It even did a GREAT job with my two laptops. In those cases I had to manually increase or decrease the screen brightness but again a painless process.

In total I calibrated 5 computers and all look very close in brightness and colors. I never would have been able to do this with hand calibration.

Overall I'm very happy with the results from the ColorMunki. I can now move from computer to computer without having to worry about the colors been incorrect. My laptops (like most laptops these days) use TN displays that shift the colors as you change viewing angles (reason graphic artist are hesitant to use laptops for graphic work) but it was still a huge improvement from the default settings. Just getting the brightness of the laptops correct was a big win.

I recommend this product for any photographer and graphic artist that care about color accuracy.

-------UPDATE-------

First, there has been an update from X-Rite to the X-Rite XRD Manager. It seems to solve several problems with the program not responding. This component (the XRD Manager) gets installed by the X-Rite drivers but this component got a separate update.

Go to the X-Rite site and search for "X-Rite Device Services (XRD)", the latest version as of today is 2.2. Below are a list of issues (rare issues) I have encountered with ColorMunki but I don't know if this update would solve any, some or all of them. Will update in the future after this update.

I wanted to update my review with several issues I have encountered while calibrating some displays. Note, all my testing is with Windows 7 64bit and Vista 32bit computers, I don't know how the ColorMunkey would work on a Mac or older versions of Windows.

Problem 1: For some displays I've had to calibrate twice to get the right colors. Not common but it has happened to me. If the colors don't look right try again. I suspect this to be a Windows issue (I suspect the latest patch will fix this).

Problem 2: It works better when Windows has drivers for the monitor. Yes, for most monitors in Windows 7 and Vista Microsoft will send you drivers for your monitor through the Windows update feature (optional updates). ColorMunkey seems to use the information on the drivers to some extent.

Problem 3: I have found SOME monitors that REFUSE to calibrate NO MATTER what. ColorMunkei depends on being able to take control of the monitor settings. I found that one of my old Samsung 21" monitor (DVI Connection) would not calibrate no matter what. Then again this monitor has poor colors even if you manually calibrate it.

Problem 4: This is perhaps the biggest problem for many, ColorMunkei doesn't do miracles. A bad display is, well ... a bad display. To get acceptable results ColorMunkei needs all primary colors and most of the secondary colors to display within an acceptable range (usually no more than 3 deltas of difference from ideal color). Some displays will not give you good colors no matter how you calibrate. In those cases calibration becomes more of an art than a science and ColorMunkei is no good at that. Manual calibration is your only hope here as only you can know what color defects are acceptable to you.

Example: A particular monitor can't display blues right, after calibration all other colors look good but now you have a blue color cast because calibrating the other colors actually highlights the blue color issue even more.

I still would recommend Color Munkey without hesitation but problem number 3 is specially disturbing. This tells me that at least on Windows machines we can get some kind of hardware/software incompatibility that you can't overcome (I have not tested with the latest patch from X-Rite yet). Problem number 4 is more about expectations, know your hardware and understand what it can do. TN panels are cheap and color quality varies a LOT on them. You CAN make them look better after calibration but IPS are generally better if color is critical to you. It is better to begin with a good display and then calibrate to get the most from it. Don't get a bad display and expect calibration to fix every color issue.
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26 of 26 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars ColorMunki Display vs Spyder Express June 25, 2012
I'm a Los Angeles based professional photographer working in entertainment related commercial photography. After disappointing results from the pantone huey pro I was debating between ColorMunki and Spyder express which are in similar price categories. The Spyder only allows you to profile one device per user license. With the ColorMunki I've profiled all the computers in my home and it works amazingly well. It takes control of most monitors brightness and contrast settings within the software so to know you're getting a very accurate profile. On devices like my flat screen TV it's on screen guide prompted me to raise and lower the contrast and brightness with the TV's remote which was super cool and produced incredible results. An added bonus is that it can also profile DLP or LCD Projectors. For the price I'm thrilled with the ColorMunki Display.
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