X-Rite ColorMunki Smile (CMUNSML)
Key features
- •COMPATIBILITY: This product is NOT MacOS 10.15 Catalina compatible.
- •EXCLUSIVE TECHNOLOGY: This kit includes a measurement device & super simple software. You also get easy-to-follow help videos, but the process is so easy, you probably won't need them. Calibrate your laptop or desktop monitor & even your Apple iOS devices
- •SIMPLE COLOR BALANCING: ColorMunki Smile is supported in the X-Rite ColorTRUE mobile app, a free app that extends your calibration power to profile iOS phones and tablets. In just minutes, you'll easily achieve the perfect mobile to desktop color match.
- •COLOR MANAGEMENT EXPERTISE: X-Rite is the leader in color management solutions. Our color matching products can help you get you the right color every time, accurately & consistently, whether you're an enthusiast or professional photographer or filmmaker
- •COMPARE THE QUALITY: Compare our advanced display calibration color solutions to similar products from Viewsonic, Datacolor, DGK Color Tools, Michael Tapes Design, CameraTrax or Datacolor
- •Your eyes aren’t perfect - well even if you have perfect color vision there are other factors that affect how you see color like age, gender and health. You need a measurement device to ensure accurate color.
- •Monitors display color differently and change over time – calibrating your display on a regular basis fine-tunes it to known color reference standards and ensures consistency as it ages over time.
- •Image colors are not true to life – even a slight red or blue cast can throw off your images. Calibrating your display gives you confidence to view, edit and share your images knowing the colors are correct.
- •Highlights and shadow details are lost – calibrating your monitor brings back the details for more accurate viewing of your entire image.
- •Grays & whites aren’t consistent – which can cause a shift in color hue. Calibrating your monitor produces neutral grays and whites and eliminates inconsistency.
X-Rite ColorMunki Smile (CMUNSML)
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Customer Reviews
Reviews sourced from verified Amazon purchasers3.9
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A solid investment.
Darlene Brazee✓ Verified Purchase•August 23, 2017
Just got my test prints back from the lab and they are great. Their version of autocorrect looks nearly identical to the way edited and sent them. I cringed at the price but it was money well spent. I'm a photographer and having clients get prints that are exact representations of what they are seeing on thief screen is so valuable. I am enjoying this peace of mind.
For the price it's a good deal, but don't expect a feature packed unit
D. K.✓ Verified Purchase•December 25, 2016
Worked well after I downloaded some third party software. If you use the software out of the box it will leave your monitor on the blueish/bright side. I needed more advanced features since I work as a retoucher for magazines. For the price it's a good deal, but don't expect sophisticated software, and if you have specific soft proofing parameters you will need third party software to make it work well. I think for the price and the small amount of work I had to do downloading software this was a good investment. If you are a casual user that just wants different screens to have the same colors, then this will work well and easily for you.
The latest software (September 2016) is still outdated.
WiOs✓ Verified Purchase•December 13, 2016
CON:
The box says 2010. That probably the year it was designed. I didn't use the included CD. Instead, I downloaded the current version of software (V1.1.3 for mac) from X-Rite website. I am using three mac computers. (1) Late-2013 21.5-inch iMac; (2) Late-2015 21.5-inch iMac (non 4K retina); and (3) 2015 model of 13" Macbook Pro (retina display). All are running with mac OS Sierra. The colormunki only works on the Late-2013 model. On the other two computers, it seems to be normal in the beginning. When it is the step to save the profile, an error message says there is something wrong with the measurement. Then I had to repeat the 5-minute calibration process again, but it never got through. I have tried to play with the preference a lot and tried both Easy and Advanced calibration. Nothing would help. By the way, the colormunki can't be recognized by unpowered USB hubs. Even it seems to be connected first, it will dropped very soon. So if you have to use it, plug it directly to the computer's USB port.
PRO:
When it works, it works great. I always printed dull photos from my Canon Pro-100 printers. After calibrating my iMac, I found that the picture itself was dull. The uncalibrated monitor had falsely displayed vivid color. I haven't tested printing yet, but I expect to get improved prints.
The box says 2010. That probably the year it was designed. I didn't use the included CD. Instead, I downloaded the current version of software (V1.1.3 for mac) from X-Rite website. I am using three mac computers. (1) Late-2013 21.5-inch iMac; (2) Late-2015 21.5-inch iMac (non 4K retina); and (3) 2015 model of 13" Macbook Pro (retina display). All are running with mac OS Sierra. The colormunki only works on the Late-2013 model. On the other two computers, it seems to be normal in the beginning. When it is the step to save the profile, an error message says there is something wrong with the measurement. Then I had to repeat the 5-minute calibration process again, but it never got through. I have tried to play with the preference a lot and tried both Easy and Advanced calibration. Nothing would help. By the way, the colormunki can't be recognized by unpowered USB hubs. Even it seems to be connected first, it will dropped very soon. So if you have to use it, plug it directly to the computer's USB port.
PRO:
When it works, it works great. I always printed dull photos from my Canon Pro-100 printers. After calibrating my iMac, I found that the picture itself was dull. The uncalibrated monitor had falsely displayed vivid color. I haven't tested printing yet, but I expect to get improved prints.
Two identical IPS panels, two very different results...
J. Marshall✓ Verified Purchase•June 21, 2016
I have two IPS monitors with the same panel but that have slightly different coloring. I was hoping that calibrating the two would normalize them to look the same. After working on it for about an hour, re-calibrating both monitors several times with all the (very limited) available settings, monitor brightness variations, etc... the two monitors looked even more different than with the factory default calibration! Seeing the obvious difference in calibration results from display to display makes me question the accuracy of the device in the first place.
The second, much lesser but still relevant issue I have with the ColorMunki is it's software. It forces you to sit through drawn out 3d animations (which I'm sure someone at the company thought were cool, but quite frankly look like they're from 2001.) Menu transitions are incredibly slow. It provides zero diagnostic information about it's process or calibration results, so you have no idea why or what it did outside of a before/after image. And even the before/after feature is janky; you cant view it side by side and when switching between the two the screen colors colors adjust to something else entirely for a split second making comparing the two even more difficult. For testing profiles and seeing information, I found using Microsoft's screen color management program was easier to use and more informative. If a system program from Microsoft does a better job than your software, you're doing something very wrong!
But really, I can overlook crummy software if the device actually works... unfortunately it doesn't seem to do so. I'll get around to testing it on other monitors around the house and see if it's just a fluke with one of the two monitors I tried it on. Them both having the same panel and seeing it fail as bad as it did doesn't exactly inspire confidence that I'll get good results on anything else.
The second, much lesser but still relevant issue I have with the ColorMunki is it's software. It forces you to sit through drawn out 3d animations (which I'm sure someone at the company thought were cool, but quite frankly look like they're from 2001.) Menu transitions are incredibly slow. It provides zero diagnostic information about it's process or calibration results, so you have no idea why or what it did outside of a before/after image. And even the before/after feature is janky; you cant view it side by side and when switching between the two the screen colors colors adjust to something else entirely for a split second making comparing the two even more difficult. For testing profiles and seeing information, I found using Microsoft's screen color management program was easier to use and more informative. If a system program from Microsoft does a better job than your software, you're doing something very wrong!
But really, I can overlook crummy software if the device actually works... unfortunately it doesn't seem to do so. I'll get around to testing it on other monitors around the house and see if it's just a fluke with one of the two monitors I tried it on. Them both having the same panel and seeing it fail as bad as it did doesn't exactly inspire confidence that I'll get good results on anything else.
Outdated software for mac. Accurate color calibration vs Spyder 5
Gatesbuster✓ Verified Purchase•December 16, 2015
I would have added 2 stars if it was not for the software coming with the color munki. The software is coming on a CD; no luck if you have a new macbook without a CD driver. Hello what about a link to download the software ??? Spyder is coming without a CD but with a quick install link that get you all you need in minutes. They are not keeping up with Mac os and once installed I got error messages. The web site trying to get support is horrendous. Once calibrated, my displays all showed a yellow cast; got more or less the same result calibrating with a spyder 5 pro. The colors printed however were quite accurate; so it does the job. X-Rite needs to come up with an update of their software for mac; when it tries to update, you get an error message.(see the screen captures). I am running OS X El Capitan.
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