CalMAN Enhanced ColorMunki Spectroradiometer Kit

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The ColorMunki is the compact relative to the popular professional level EyeOne Pro. It offers the power of a spectroradiometer in a compact innovatively designed package.

The ColorMunki is manufactured in Switzerland and hand calibrated at SpectraCal for improved performance and versatility when used with CalMAN. Each ColorMunki also contains a reference tile inside the meter for dark calibrations.

The CalMAN Enhanced ColorMunki you purchase here include the full retail ColorMunki Design Kit plus a CalMAN Home or Enthusiast license and meter enhancement for LED calibration. All of the original X-rite ColorMunki Design software is therefore also included for doing printer calibration and PC/Mac monitor profiling.

More and more new displays are arriving based on Backlight LED technology. One industry analyst estimates that by next year 40% of flat-panel displays will use Backlight LEDs. Existing meters give erroneous results when calculating these displays. The errors aren't huge, but they're there, and most people don't go to the trouble of calibrating their displays for the purpose of making them "not too wrong."

Accurate results from backlight LED devices can be achieved if the meter has an additional calibration table to account for this discrepancy. Backlight LED tables are included for all ColorMunki meters. It does not matter if the display is edgelit, backlit or backlit RGB - they all work with the Backlight LED calibrated ColorMunki.

All calibration is performed in SpectraCal's NIST-traceable calibration lab using a Konica Minolta CS-2000 reference meter. This is the only source for Backlight LED calibrated ColorMunki's. They aren’t available anywhere else.

A pod device such as the Spyder1/2/3, Eye-One Display 2/LT, Gamma 5, or Chroma 5 measures light through filters and estimates the color based on a relatively small number of sensors, usually three and sometimes a few more. The ColorMunki uses a holographic diffraction grating with a diode array (no filters to degrade) similar to what is found in laboratory grade instruments. The ColorMunki samples with multiple sensors instead of three and uses the internationally recognized scientific standard method from CIE to calculate the x and y coordinates from those samples. The end result is increased accuracy that remains accurate over time.

The ColorMunki is a hi-tech spectrophotometer. It works exactly like a normal spectroradiometer, but it has a large dial on the side which rotates the internal meter to different specific locations for the four different operating modes:

Dark calibration plate mode: Like the EyeOne Pro, the ColorMunki needs periodic Dark Calibration. (CalMAN will recommend the user to perform a dark calibration every 20 minutes.) To perform a dark calibration, you turn the ColorMunki to this setting.

Diffuser window mode: The diffuser window is for pointing the ColorMunki directly at a front projector lens. (With the EyeOne Pro or the Chroma 5, you use the included external diffuser that comes with the meter to perform this function. The ColorMunki has the diffuser built in).

Open window for flat screen calibration: For calibrating direct view (flat) screens of all types.

Front projection window mode: For pointing the ColorMunki directly at a front projection screen (the built in diffuser is not used).

The EyeOne Pro is a professional class meter that is NIST certified, extremely robust, field-tested for years, known to hold up phenomenally.

The EyeOne Pro is NIST certified while the ColorMunki is not. If you are charging money to calibrate professionally it is highly recommended that you use a NIST certified meter that is recertified every year so that you have proof of accuracy for your customers.

With the EyeOne Pro, you get CalMAN’s extensive low-light handling, to extend the EyeOne Pro’s legendary accuracy further down into the dark, farther than the ColorMunki.

The ColorMunki can’t be used for reflectance measurements in CalMAN while the EyeOne Pro can. Reflectance measurements means measuring non-illuminated surfaces like paper for calibrating a printer or measuring a paint chip. The ColorMunki does work perfectly well for measuring home theater projection screens as they are illuminated of course. Our ColorMunki kits ship with all of the regular X-rite software that normally comes with the meter so you can use this X-rite software to do reflectance measurements of paint chips, printer paper, etc, with the ColorMunki - just not with CalMAN software. (Reflectance mode uses an internal tungsten lamp for illuminating the surface it is measuring).

The Chroma 5 is a very fast-reading meter. The ColorMunki is slower as it is a spectroradiometer.
The Chroma 5 is less expensive.

We have a Spyder3/ColorMunki package available. So why buy two meters? As is often the case, there's usually a trade-off: The Spyder3 reads extremely fast but is a colorimeter so it drifts over time as it uses a filter that slowly degrades. The ColorMunki on the other hand reads slowly but remains more accurate over time since it's a spectroradiometer with no filter to degrade.

Using CalMAN you can profile the Spyder3 against the ColorMunki to get the speed of the Spyder3 with the accuracy of the ColorMunki. The best of both worlds! Pro's do this all the time with the more expensive NIST certified Chroma5 (colorimeter) and EyeOne Pro (spectroradiometer). Now you can do the same at a fraction of the cost.

Measuring Geometrics: 45°/0°
Receiver: Holographic diffraction grating with diode array
Spectral Range: Emissive 400 nm to 700 nm
Spectral Interval: 10 nm
Inter-Instrument Agreement: Average 0.6 DE2000, max. 1.5, DE2000 on X-Rite factory standard
Short-Term Repeatability: Typical 0.1 DE2000 on white
Measurement Range: 0 ... 1000 Cd/m2
Measuring Time: 2 seconds for Single mode
Data Interface: USB
Operating Temperature Range: 10° C to 35° C
Storage Temperature Range: -25° C to 70° C
Weight: 230 grams (0.5 lbs)
Dimensions: 48 mm x 103 mm x 96 mm
Accessories Provided: USB cable, bag

Supports all known display types including (but not necessarily limited to): LCD, LCoS, SXRD, CRT, Plasma, DLP, and LED based displays.

The CalMAN Enhanced ColorMunki kit is the full retail ColorMunki Design Kit plus a CalMAN Home license and meter enhancement. CalMAN Home with Enhanced ColorMunki includes:

All X-Rite meters are backed by a strong one-year warranty. Click here for full warranty details.

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In short, when you buy a meter through us, you know what you are getting, and you know you are getting the best.

CalMAN Enhanced ColorMunki Spectroradiometer Kit

When purchasing you will be paying and dealing directly with the third party seller 'SpectraCal'. This item is not sold or supported by CurtPalme.com

When purchasing you will be paying and dealing directly with the third party seller 'SpectraCal'.
This item is not sold or supported by CurtPalme.com