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Raw & Post Processing, Printing => Colour Management => Topic started by: BruceHouston on January 04, 2010, 01:27:54 am

Title: Can Colormunki Do Emissive Spot Color Reads?
Post by: BruceHouston on January 04, 2010, 01:27:54 am

I just installed a new Colormunki Photo with Vers. 1.1.1 software, and have a few questions:

(1) Is the spot color function active/accurate for a color patch on a display?  It would seem not, if for no other reason than the software turns on a light source in this mode to illuminate the reflective medium.  On the other hand, the same physical setting on the device used for reflective spot color reading is also used for the monitor profiling function; so the device itself is undoubtedly capable of reading emissive spot color.

(2) If reading emissive spot color is possible with the Munki, could a Munki-generated printer profile be improved by using the "Optimize" function to read Colorchecker patches?

(Probably silly questions from a newbie at custom printer profiling.)

Thank you!
Bruce

Title: Can Colormunki Do Emissive Spot Color Reads?
Post by: probep on January 04, 2010, 02:23:21 am

Quote from: BruceHouston

I just installed a new Colormunki Photo with Vers. 1.1.1 software, and have a few questions:

(1) Is the spot color function active/accurate for a color patch on a display?  It would seem not, if for no other reason than the software turns on a light source in this mode to illuminate the reflective medium.  On the other hand, the same physical setting on the device used for reflective spot color reading is also used for the monitor profiling function; so the device itself is undoubtedly capable of reading emissive spot color.

(2) If reading emissive spot color is possible with the Munki, could a Munki-generated printer profile be improved by using the "Optimize" function to read Colorchecker patches?

(Probably silly questions from a newbie at custom printer profiling.)

Thank you!
Bruce

No, it's impossible with the ColorMunki software.
But free ArgyllCMS 1.1.0 does allow emissive spot reading with a ColorMunki device.

Title: Can Colormunki Do Emissive Spot Color Reads?
Post by: BruceHouston on January 04, 2010, 06:26:02 am

Quote from: probep

No, it's impossible with the ColorMunki software.
But free ArgyllCMS 1.1.0 does allow emissive spot reading with a ColorMunki device.

Super; thanks Probep.  I may try Argyll.