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Bellisimo! Bravo to X-Rite for the amazing ColorMunki! Out of the box, easy 1,2 3 color management - I had my monitors and printers calibrated in less than an hour, including opening the box and loading the software! Plus, the small size makes it easy to store and a breeze to take on location. I'm never going to feel the pain of bad image quality again! Thank you X-Rite for listening to photographers and giving us what we need - plus a lot more - I can't wait to see everything! I am smiling! - Jane Conner-ziser
About Jane: Jane is an international award-winning professional photographer, retouching expert, and fine artist with over 25 years experience in the portrait photography industry. Jane is Software Cinema's premier author for facial retouching enhancement and portrait painting, and her techniques are sought after and emulated by thousands of photographers and artists throughout the world who attend her seminars and acquire her educational materials. Jane is proud to be a Craftsman Photographer with PPA, a Corel Painter Master, and has recently been recruited as a member of Canon's elite PrintMaster program.
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The ColorMunki is small, smart and stylish! I found measuring the patches to be very easy and effective. I had no issues sliding the unit over the patches and getting good data, with amazingly good repeatability. I’m floored by the quality of the profiles I built using only 50-100 patches. The output on several printers I tested (Epson 3800, 1900, 7880) was excellent for only using a few patches! The application is also blazingly fast at building the profile thanks to, I suspect, a fully Intel Native build. The ColorMunki will be a great device to travel with as its very small but so functional. - Andrew Rodney, The Digital Dog
About Andrew: Andrew Rodney, aka the Digital Dog, has provided digital imaging, electronic photography, color management, and Adobe Photoshop services and training to photographers, designers, print shops, government agencies and fortune 1000 companies since 1993. Andrew was the technical editor for Photo Electronic Imaging pub and is the author of ‘Color Management for Photographers, Hands on Techniques for Photoshop Users’. He lectures around the country on many aspects of digital imaging and color management. Andrew was named a "Top 40 Photoshop Expert" by Wacom Technologies and in 2007, and was inducted into the NAPP Photoshop Hall of Fame. He has been featured in many industry publications including PDN, Publish, Photoshop User, Electronic Publishing, Digital Output, MacWeek, Digital Photo Pro and Professional Photographer.
www.digitaldog.com
"After working in the color management field for over 10 years, I have used most of the commercially available spectrophotometers in the market. There has always been a trade-off between price, speed, and ease of use. The ColorMunki is the first device that I have used that delivers on the promise of a fast, affordable and error-free instrument. Not only is this hand-held ColorMunki extremely tolerant of human error and lack of dexterity, it's speed and accuracy is exceptional and all at a great price! In addition, living up to it's moniker, the ColorMunki is a versatile device delivering emissive, reflective, strip and spot readings all in one convenient small package. I highly recommend the ColorMunki not only for the prosumer looking to tame their color woes, but also for the professional wedding or portrait photographer as another indispensable part of their toolkit. I know it's in mine!" – Son Do, Chief Technology Officer, Rods and Cones, Inc.
About Son: Son Do co-founded Rods and Cones, Inc., in 1996. He is the technical expert when it comes to color management and its integration into a digital workflow. His years spent in the trenches of color management's emerging technologies have given him exposure to most color management products, in most industries, including design and advertising, prepress, printing, and digital photography. He is an accredited Adobe instructor and conducts training in Adobe CS2, QuarkXpress and other related applications. www.rodsandcones.com
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“You have done it, X-Rite! I am thrilled with the ColorMunki, and my students will be too! The small, compact design is wonderfully convenient, easily portable when I teach, and amazingly easy to use! My profiles are dead-on and being able to send my images in a digital pouch that guarantees my view of color will be carried throughout printing and publishing is amazing. Plus, I can get the color I desire with my projector – what a bonus! No more apologies for color or explanations to the client. Thanks so much X-Rite – you listened to the needs of photographers and the result is incredible!” – Helen Yancy, PPA Master, Painter Master
About Helen: No other American artist or photographer has received as many international honors or more professional acclaim than Helen Yancy. During her distinguished career, Helen Yancy has earned the rare distinction of being the first person in the world to receive every degree and honor presented by Professional Photographers of America (PPA), the largest and most prestigious professional photographic association in the world. She is a past president and chairman of the board of PPA and is one of only a few Americans to be honored as a Fellow of the British Institute of Photography, in part because of her leadership in creating ties between PPA and the British Institute. A member of the prestigious Portrait Society of America and the Society of XXV, a group of 25 exceptional photographic artists from around the world, she is one of fewer than 100 Fellows of the American Society of Photographers. In 2001, she was honored at the United Nations with a Medallion for leadership, service, artistic and photographic ability by the International Council for Photography, the only organization of its kind recognized by the UN.
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