Name: Used X-Rite ColorMunki Smile Monitor Calibration undefined
Brand: X-Rite
SKU: US1597993
Price: 89.00 USD
Availability: Discontinued
Rating: 4.5 (30 reviews)

X-Rite ColorMunki Smile Monitor Calibration

X-Rite ColorMunki Smile

X-Rite

X-Rite ColorMunki Smile Monitor Calibration - SKU#1597993

Adorama

Used

Video

Video Monitors

Monitor Color Calibration

X-Rite Monitor Color Calibration

X-Rite ColorMunki Smile 

Open Box: Used X-Rite ColorMunki Smile Monitor Calibration undefined

 ColorMunki Smile   Amazingly Simple Monitor Calibration  For photo hobbyists, design enthusiasts, gamers and web viewing, ColorMunki Smile is a super simple way to get more accurate color from your monitor. The process is easy. The results are amazing.   Calibrate. Share. Smile.   Every wonder why the pictures you took at the beach, graduation or your kid's game don't look the same on your monitor as you remember them? Well, monitors aren't perfect. Color can vary from monitor to monitor or change over time. (Sometimes a whole lot.) Even the conditions where you view the monitor can havean effect on what the color looks like on the screen. If only there was a cure? Smile there is.  ColorMunki Smile delivers super simple monitor calibration for your laptop or desktop monitor. Calibration is just a fancy way of saying adjust your computer screen to show the colors correctly. Sound complicated? Smile it isn't.  Actually, it's really easy. Simply plug the device into your USB port and follow the on-screen instructions. ColorMunki Smile does all the work with a few clicks of the mouse. When the process is done you'll see before and after results and your new color settings automatically start working. So whether you are viewing, editing or sharing your images, you'll know your colors are right. Even if you're gaming or web browsing you'll get truer colors. It couldn't be simpler.  Your colors should really match everywhere they appear. With ColorMunki Smile, now they will. Easily. Beautifully. All the time. Start smiling.   Top 5 reasons to calibrate with ColorMunki Smile:  &#149; 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. >&#149; 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. >&#149; 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. >&#149; Highlights and shadow details are lost - calibrating your monitor brings back the details for more accurate viewing of your entire image. >&#149; Grays & whites aren't consistent - which can cause a shift in color hue. Calibrating your monitor produces neutral grays and whites and eliminates inconsistency.

Used X-Rite ColorMunki Smile Monitor Calibration undefined

I'm not convinced of the calibration...my whites are grayish.  Have calibrated twice.  Will try again.  It's very easy to use.

Unsure

It was easy to set up, and automatic in its screen evaluation.  The next print just popped with color balance and range.  So glad I bought it.  It made an immediate difference in how my screen appeared.

So easy, and Effective.

After calibrating the screens they are so much easier on the eyes and I get prints that closely match what I see on the screen.

So much nicer

Now my photos print the way they appear on my monitor in Photoshop.

Excellent calibration tool at a reasonable price

This performed my screen calibration very smoothly. The before-and-after display showed very little difference, but my prints seem to be precisely as I see them on the computer (MacBookPro) screen, so I'm thinking it worked. I have had problems in the past getting prints to reflect screen views, so maybe this device did the trick.

Easy to use and seems to work

Easy to use

Was looking for great way to calibrate my monitors without spending a fortune - this fits the bill!

Great Value

It works!

Love my x-rite product - easy to use!
Fast shipping and great price - Thank you Adorama!

Love the product

After receiving "The Color Munki" and applying the application I entered a picture in a photo contest and scored 19pts out of 20. The judges were very impressed by the colors. No additional color corrections were recommended. I am very pleased with how my monitor shows true colors. Thank you so much.

Great Investment

If you're attempting to produce high quality prints/giclée's of your work, you'll need to format your own computer's colors to industry standard. It just makes life a lot easier, as what you see on your screen will be about 98% closer to how your prints will actually turn out. This device is used by professional printers and so far my printing experience has become a much happier, and successful, one.

Artist venturing into prints

I had been undecided about getting this ColorMunki Smile and then I decided that I was sick of not being sure if my colors were correct on my monitors. After calibrating my monitor I can see the difference clearly. The ColorMunki Smile allowed me to calibrate my PC, laptop, and tablet monitors.

I am happy I purchased this device. It was 100% worth it.

Excellent! A must-have for photographers!

No more over exposed or under with this product.  All my prints are now perfect!

All my prints are now perfect!  

The Colormonki Smile did a quick and easy job of calibrating my monitor.  Nothing fancy, nothing intricate and nothing complicated.  My on screen photos now more perfectly duplicated the colors of my printer's output.  A very nice product.

Delivery from Adorama was quick.

Did Exactly What I wanted It To Do

I encountered a color shift with my monitor when I upgraded to Windows 10.  Photoshop flagged this condition on startup, that something was not right with my monitor profile.  Yes, the ColorMunki fixed that problem and re-calibratied the colors for my monitor.  But I wish the software offered the user several more options.

Basically, their software creates and installs a new profile every time you run it.  That's it.  If you preferred your previous profile, it's gone, unless you had saved the icm file directly from Windows.  I wish their software retained a list of previously created profiles that could be reused, if necessary.

Does the job,but...

While the sensor works, the software has problems with Windows. It doesn't maintain your settings, requiring re-calibration or manually going in to the color settings of windows to fix. There are instructions on the web from someone's personal website, but not from the manufacturer. 
I'd chose another product that actually works out of the box.

Has problems with Windows.

A good product that was very easy to use on my laptops.

Good Product

Easy to install and easy to use. Would recommend it.

Does what they say it suppose to do..

new calibration tool

The only thing I noticed that was strange was the two different monitors from the same computer still don't match, one is a bit redder than the other.

Does exactly what it says it will

I've been using a Pantone Huey for years, and thought it might be time to upgrade.  The price looked good, and ColorMunki  has a good reputation.

The GOOD is that it works, and seems to work well.

The (kinda) BAD is that the controls from the software are fairly limited, and it doesn't monitor ambient light and make adjustments on the fly like the Huey did.

It works, but limited

This is a super simple way to calibrate all of your monitors.  Takes about 4 minutes or less.

Super Simple

I'm very pleased with ColorMunki's simplicity and ease of use.  

Although it will not work with Norton360 Antivirus, I switched to McAfee, and everything worked perfectly.

Tech support at X-Rite was detailed and most helpful.

Simple and easy

Only used it once. It did a decent job of calibrating monitor. After a couple tries at printing it was very close. Only used it once to calibrate but using an older eye-one display2 x-rite it was a major improvement. Cost cutter in printing supplies and the price was right.

I like it.

I wanted to be fair on this review so I will state that this product is worth every bit of 5 stars. It's pretty much fool proof and the results are great. That being said, If I were to but again I'd likely move up to the "Display". I should have known that I'd end up wanting a little more control over the process and will likely eventually move to another X-rite product that allows me to do so. When push comes to shove, this product works exactly as advertised and is extremely simple to use. As with other X-rite products I have, I'm very impressed.

A very simple solution

Recently purchased a new computer and paired it with an older monitor that hadn't been calibrated.  Purchased the ColorMunki Smile based on positive reviews here and in Shutterbug.  Found the system extremely easy to use, with good visual results (haven't yet printed new work yet).

Fast, easy, works well

I'm an amateur photographer who's just looking for a simple and hassle-free display calibration device. The ColorMunki fits the bill as it is extremely simple to use (just follow the instructions on the screen), has absolutely zero learning-curve (no complicated options or choices to make), and the results appear pleasing enough to my eyes (way better than all my attempts to calibrate displays by eye - never gotten a consistent result).

I can see how the lack of options may be an issue for some users who want more control over the calibration process. However, this didn't bother me as I felt that the device did a good enough job.

Simple and effective

The product does a thourugh job of correcting the colors on your monitor so that when you print a picture it looks like the one you reviewed. It is easy to install and use. The price is within the budget for hoby photographers.

Excelent Product for hoby Photoshop user

Very easy to use, just insert disc and follow the on-screen directions. The ColorMunki changed the brightness of my monitor slightly (like many, I think my monitor was a touch too bright)and changed the color balance to be a little cooler. I noticed a definite improvement.

Easy to use, inexpensive calibrator.

I bought this to calibrate my screen so when I use adorampix's profiles to check photos before ordering prints I'll have a better chance of seeing what I'll get. 

It is fast and easy to use. As for quality I have no frame of reference as this is my first experience with calibrating monitors, but it does make photos look a bit warmer. The faq on the manufacturers website says this is normal. My only complaint is I wish it came with some kind of storage case, to help keep it in good shape. But at this entry level price point you can't expect everything. 

The main reason I am writing this review is because I had a problem with the profile loader xrgamma.exe not installing properly and I wanted to relay my experience with x-rite's very helpful customer service.

The monitor would calibrate fine but the changes would go away every time the pc went to sleep or restarted. There was a faq about this that I followed the instuction of but that didn't fix it (it should have but my windows install is messed up). I called the 1-800 number and was on hold less than a minute. The rep. Mary was very helpful and knowledgable. I could tell she was not just reading pre-written procedures but actually knew what she was talking about. And she was very nice too.

She walked me through the most common problems first but when that didn't work she didn't give up and blame windows, even though that was the problem and it had nothing to do with the x-rite software itself. I won't bore you with all the specifics but she very patiently had me go through a bunch of windows security and firewall settings. When all else failed she came up with a way to trick windows into allowing me to get the executable into the proper folder (which I should have been able to do if not for windows thinking erroneously that it was a dangerous file). This worked and everything is fine now.

I want to re-iterate that the problem was with my computer not the software. X-rite could have said "sorry, call microsoft", like alot of companies would do. But Mary didn't. This 20 minute phone call and the three or so emails she sent while we were on the phone has made me an instant loyal customer of x-rite.

Used X-Rite ColorMunki Smile Monitor Calibration

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