And just to show you how easy calibrating the monitor is, you just follow the instructions, next, you place the Color Munki into this little holder that comes with the product and it acts as a counterweight which you suspend onto your monitor. So it allows you to calibrate LCD monitors, laptops, even video projectors, you've got an easy function and an advanced. So here's one of the features which I talked about earlier. It's a fully-fledged spectrophotometer, which also allows you to capture color so if someone comes along to you and says, you know, "What's the color of my t-shirt?" "What's the color of this catalog?" You can take a reading of a sample and on the software, which I'll show you in a bit, it will show you what that actual color is. We call it the Swiss Army knife of color because one single device, one piece of hardware, allows you to calibrate your monitors, your video projectors, and your printers. Color Munki for me is revolutionary, for the first time a product which costs under $500 euros, a small agency, creative team, even an individual or a consultant, can buy a solution which allows him to calibrate his entire workflow from his monitor to his printer. One of X-Rite's missions is always to provide technological solutions for capturing color, understanding color, recording color, but in an affordable and easy to use way. Well, as you can see on the stand, we've got lots of library colors, we are, you know, a color standard, so, we would be foolish not to have these colors. So down here, I can actually snap to a library and what happens is it divides all these colors in two, this was already a color, but this one here, which originally had an LAB and an RGB value, it now tells me that the closest Pantone reference, according to our library, is this particular one here. This is all well and good, but I'm a graphic designer, I need to communicate to the press man and he's asking for Pantone references. Now, these colors that it will measure are recorded here as LAB or SRGB values. You can just literally snap, take a picture, and you got the color up on the screen. Still, for the novice user performing occasional calibrations, it's pretty much spot on, colour casts will be banished and all your future image adjustments accurate and worthwhile.Fabio Venturotti: So, you're a creative professional, a stylist, or a fashion house or just a creative designer, you've seen something that's inspired you, be it the color on the wall, printed on paper, or let's just say this t-shirt, for example. The X-Rite Colormunki display will set you back £199 and retails in the US for $189 ($229.95 in Australia). The only minor niggle is that although it works in much the same way as the i1 Display Pro device, it's considerably slower (but you should bear in mind that it's around £50 cheaper too). Overall, there's very little not to like: the results appear accurate and no obvious colour biases can be observed, and reminders can be set up should the lighting conditions change or if a large period of time elapses between calibrations. The advanced controls enable you to measure flare from your display and to take this into account, along with white point specification and other options. Approximate timings are given throughout the process, and once complete it's possible to view before and after comparisons using a range of images. The software takes around two minutes to adjust the display's luminance using a series of patches, before the remainder are displayed and measured over an additional five minutes.
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