Pantone ColorMunki Design

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Product Feature

• Create and name unlimited custom color palettes with Palette Creation software
• Select colors from Pantone, other built-in libraries, and dynamically associated Harmony, Variation, and Similar colors
• Preview your colors before you go to production with unique verification tools
• Communicate effortlessly--Automatically synchronize palettes to Adobe Photoshop, InDesign and QuarkXpress, or export to your favorite photo and design applications
• All-in-one true spectral device with built-in white calibration tile calibrates LCD and laptop displays, RGB and CMYK printers, and digital projectors

Product Description

Your new best friend for professional color palette creation and color control. ColorMunki Design is a color creation and inspiration solution with robust color selection, verification, specification and sharing functionality. Select colors from Pantone� PMS and GoeTM libraries, image libraries or capture spot colors from just about any surface, plus preview out-of-gamut by paper type. Includes essential color control functions for calibrating displays, projectors and printers with spot color optimization with a fully integrated all-in-one device. Designed with powerful features and an easy-to-use, intuitive interface, you'll soon be calling ColorMunki Design your new best friend. Ideal for agencies, corporate in-house and freelance designers.

Pantone ColorMunki Design Review

I was a bit anxious when I received my Colormunki Design - I had read some mixed reviews, a few of which were from professional photographers using Colormunki Photo, and those particular reviews had tended to be critical. I have been working on an illustrated book, and ordered the Colormunki after I had exhausted my attempts to print anything resembling my work as it appeared on my iMac. My printer is a Canon ip4500 - not a printer that is even addressed by the professional quality paper companies whose paper I was using (Hahnemuhle and Inkpress), nor one that I thought the makers of Colormunki had in mind when they designed their product. But I was desperate, and hopeful that the Colormunki would at least get me closer to producing a decent print.

The Colormunki Design arrived, complete with a Pantone GeoGuide that I hadn't expected and was pretty delighted to receive. Installation went smoothly, and I was able to calibrate my monitor with no problem. Then I dove right in to create a printer profile for my Inkpress Luster Duo paper. That's where I began to have problems.

For one thing, it was unclear to me how I was meant to, and if I had, turned off Color Management in the printer dialog box that pops up when you attempt to print the sample swatches from the Colormunki program. I was further confused by the fact that when I print from an Adobe program, like Photoshop, I could clearly turn off Color Management. My attempts to produce a color profile that produced a print that bore any resemblance to my monitor image was very mixed - the colors I was producing on my printer were wonderfully vibrant where before they had always been muddy. I saw, on the paper, the colors I hoped to see in my prints - only they usually weren't occurring where I wanted them - and overall the prints were too dark and oversaturated.

To make a very long story short, after lots of profile attempts, and of expensive ink and paper piling up in the scrap heap, I called Colormunki support. Mary at the support center was very friendly and interested in helping me figure out what was happening w/ my profiles (even though I'm sure I and my ip4500 wasn't the worst of Pantone's worries regarding the Colormunki). We had a number of conversations regarding the Color Management problem, I sent her a few screen shots of the various printer dialog boxes, and she was over in her office setting up Canon printers and doing experiments on her own, with some input from the tech guys who were wandering around working on much larger problems, no doubt having to do with unhappy professional photographers working on professional printers.

Things were gradually working out (we figured out how to turn off Color Management) but the real breakthrough came when Mary mentioned, kind of offhand, that perhaps the Colormunki wasn't recognizing the paper profile I had chosen; I was using, having made a guess from the suggested paper profiles on the Inkpress site, Hagaki as my media choice. Using a leftover sheet of Epson (sorry Canon!) Double-sided Matte Photo paper, I made a profile choosing Matte Photo paper as my media choice - and viola! The prints I made with that profile, using the Inkpress paper, were almost dead on!

I went on the make another profile w/ the Hahnemuhle Photo Rag Duo paper, and that too looked splendid, with the exception of the reds, which weren't rich enough. I solved that by printing my reds twice. Fine by me, and ostensibly I could "refine" my profile to address that problem.

So, for me the Colormunki Design was worth it, and I am excited to explore the color palettes that come with the device and on the software. Yes, it would have been great if there had been clearer instructions both in the software prompts and on the website for addressing the Color Management issue, and I can almost weep when I look at the paper and ink ($23 a cartridge! 5 cartridges!) I wasted because of that oversite on Pantone's part. Also, the program should be able to handle whatever media type my printer driver can handle, so that one doesn't have to second guess the results.

Given, though, the relatively friendly price of the Colormunki, the very ernest and responsive support I received (thanks Mary!) and that it did do the job with my consumer class printer, I'm happy. Weeping over the color of your prints? Buy a Colormunki (and maybe some extra ink.)

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