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X-Rite and Pantone Launch ColorMunki Family of Breakthrough Colour Products for Photo and Design Markets
Thursday 12. June 2008 - ColorMunki Photo, ColorMunki Design and ColorMunki Create Empower Users to Create and Control Colour from Inspiration to Final Output
X-Rite, Incorporated (NASDAQ: XRIT), the world leader in colour management and measurement technologies, along with recently acquired Pantone, Inc., the global authority on colour and provider of professional colour standards for the design industries, today introduced ColorMunki, a breakthrough in both price and performance.
Based on X-Rite and Pantones deep understanding of the photo and design communities, ColorMunki solutions are the industrys first easy-to-use, convergent technologies developed specifically to feed the artistic imagination of creative professionals – at an affordable price. Designed to meet the requirements of creatives working in a digital environment across industries, the revolutionary ColorMunki family ensures accurate colour from inspiration to final output in ways never before possible.
“Our all-new ColorMunki portfolio reflects a deepened commitment to customers. We’ve developed solutions for distinct segments of the creative community facilitating an unprecedented digital workflow that seamlessly incorporates colour. The exceptional ease-of-use has extended the appeal of our solutions. Finally, colour excellence can be integrated effortlessly into anyone’s creative vision, setting a new industry standard,” states X-Rite Senior Vice President of Global Sales & Marketing Iris Mangelschots.
Meet ColorMunki
ColorMunki solutions provide photographers and designers new technological advances that – for the first time – address core issues of colour creation, control and communication in easy-to-use, integrated solutions. The ColorMunki portfolio includes ColorMunki Photo, ColorMunki Design and ColorMunki Create, all supported by www.colormunki.com. The products are a combination of software and hardware that give creatives freedom and flexibility to create and produce with colour confidence.
The ColorMunki Portfolio Includes:
ColorMunki Photo
Designed for the digital workflow of social, wedding and portrait photographers – or anyone passionate about photography – ColorMunki Photo delivers an easy, quick and affordable solution for matching colours from display to print.
Developed with professional photographer input, ColorMunki Photo is a completely integrated, versatile solution that calibrates displays, projectors and printers, measures ambient light and captures spot colours. The new AppSet automatically sets the printer profile for the user. ColorMunki Photo also includes new, exciting colour creation and communication tools, such as automatically extracting colours from images and transporting images with DigitalPouch to ensure ViewSafe environments. ColorMunki Photo gives photographers ultimate colour control for their images.
ColorMunki Design
Developed for graphic professionals from freelancers to corporate in-house designers, ColorMunki Design provides the freedom and simplicity to select, specify and store colour palettes in a calibrated environment, assuring precise colour viewing and reproduction. Palettes can then be seamlessly imported into popular design applications including Adobe Photoshop, InDesign and QuarkXPress, as well as other industry-standard applications. Colours can be selected from multiple sources including PANTONE Color Libraries, system-level colour pickers, inspirational images, colour harmonies and key word searches. ColorMunki Design allows users to quickly and accurately capture colours from any surface, easily calibrate monitors, projectors and printers for accurate display-to-print matching, and verify spot colours for process-safe reproduction in any medium.
ColorMunki Create
ColorMunki Create is an affordable, simple starting point for designers whose primary requirement is colour palette creation. ColorMunki Create offers spectral colour selection from system-level colour pickers, inspirational images, colour harmonies and key word searches, with the ability to snap-to PANTONE Goe Colors for repurposing into usable palettes. In addition to software, ColorMunki Create offers a simplified approach to on-screen colour control to let designers realise their creative vision. ColorMunki Create is easily upgraded to ColorMunki Design using the discount voucher included in the box.
All three solutions are supported by www.colormunki.com, an online portal where designers and photographers can experience key ColorMunki software capabilities such as create, share and view colour palettes with peers, search and select colours from images provided by the www.photoshelter.com community, and test their colour-viewing ability with an online test. Creatives will also be able to purchase any of the ColorMunki solutions directly through the Web site.
Pricing, Availability and System Requirements
ColorMunki Photo and ColorMunki Design will be available in late March 2008 at www.colormunki.com and other photo, design, major electronics and online retailers for an SRP of USD $499/429/£319.
ColorMunki Create will be available in June 2008 at www.colormunki.com and other design and online retailers for an SRP of USD $149/129.
Additional PANTONE Color Libraries can be purchased for use with ColorMunki Design and ColorMunki Create from www.colormunki.com for an SRP of USD $19.95/19.95.
The ColorMunki family of products is compatible with Mac OS X 10.4 or higher and Windows XP and higher.