ColorMunki is the all-in-one color solution offering from X-Rite and brings some really exciting capabilities to the photographic market. But what is a ColorMunki? It is a full circle calibration and profiling product that makes round-tripping from your monitor to your printer affordable.
The folks at X-Rite have just updated the software that runs the ColorMunki so the purpose here is to go over the new features with version 1.1. To read about the ColorMunki in general you can check out my review. The upgrade to version 1.1 is the same for both the Photo and Design editions with the exception of one feature, the licensing, which I will cover in a moment.
So what is new with version 1.1?
• New License Agreement – ColorMunki Photo version 1.1 now contains the previously announced new end user license agreement allowing users to install and run ColorMunki Photo software on an unlimited number of computers they own. Please note that this new license agreement does not apply to ColorMunki Design which still has a three-computer license agreement.
• Optimized Display Profiling – ColorMunki now offers the ability to optimize display luminance based on either ambient light measurements or user-specified luminance values.
• User-defined ambient light levels allows users to see actual ambient light levels, giving detailed luminance value information to make any appropriate changes to the work environment before calibrating.
• Precise control of display luminance target and actual measured luminance values now displayed while adjusting display luminance, ensuring total accuracy of this function. ColorMunki 1.1 also offers the option for automatic video LUT adjustments, for more exacting control over luminance display levels.
• Optimized display contrast and brightness (backlight) workflow — ColorMunki’s all-new automated contrast-clipping test provides a user-adjusted contrast option for an assured easier and faster workflow.
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