Spanking the ColorMunki

There's a very comprehensive review of X-rite's new "Color Munki" over at northlight-images' web site. Despite getting off to a dodgy start by spelling both "colour" and "monkey" incorrectly, the nice people at X-rite seem to have produced a tool with a host of useful functions. Not only will the Munki (seriously, we have to call it this?) calibrate your monitor for you, it will also calibrate projectors, printer output and read spot-colours from almost anything.

I like the idea of the digital pouch application that alerts clients if they're viewing an image on a system that hasn't been colour managed. It's all very well setting up your own monitor very carefully but as soon as your image files have been burned to a DVD or e-mailed to a client they're in no-man's land and the results could look hideous in the wrong environment.

At first glance the ColorMunki seems to have had some serious thought put in at the design stage and the resulting hardware appears smart and almost Apple-like in its finish. The little neoprene pouch looks funky too and it seems that the whole set-up would easily squeeze into the corner of a suitcase. So it might be that I can start taking a profiler with me when I travel. Whatever next?

If a ColorMunki comes my way I'll post a review of it and make a comparison to the X-rite Monaco Optix that I'm currently using.

Tags: colour profiling