We get a lot of questions about which of these two solutions one should purchase: ColorMunki Display or i1Display Pro. And the answer is always a definitive “it depends!” First let’s look at what is the same about these two solutions.

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The hardware for both of these devices is identical with two exceptions. The body of the devices are different colors and the i1Display Pro measures up to 5x faster than conventional colorimeters. Both of these devices feature the newly designed colorimeter from X-rite giving you enhanced color accuracy and repeatability.

Go to the Windows Explorer and navigate to the “C: Program Files (x86) X-Rite ColorMunki Display Profiles” folder. Right-click on the “XRiteLinearProfile.icc” profile and then left-click on “Install Profile”. I trashed the files related to Colormunki and X-Rite and installed the new software. Just calibrated my iMac and Apple Cinema Display with no issues. Device connected right away. ColorMunki Display v1.1.4. ColorMunki Display can compensate for this effect and provide the option to automatically adjust your profile or simply notify you as ambient light conditions change. Flare Correct™ measures and adjusts your display profile for reduced contrast ratios caused.

These new colorimeters feature:

Additionally, the color engine in both ColorMunki Display software and i1Profiler is the same color engine. So you can trust profiles made from both devices in each distinctive software program to be professional quality profiles for any level of use.

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So how are these two devices different? Well we’ve already mentioned one difference… the i1Display Pro measures up to 5x faster than conventional colorimeters. But let’s look a little deeper into the differences.

ColorMunki Display software is wizard driven and very easy to use. While it does give the user some degree of control over settings it is really designed for simplicity of use. As we said before the color engine that produces the profile in each software program is the same so you can expect professional quality results from ColorMunki Display. It just doesn’t have all the “bells and whistles.”

i1Profiler, the software that drives the i1Display Pro, offers nearly endless combinations of choices for settings in the advanced mode. Make custom patch sets using small, medium, or large base patches. Add colors captured from the device or from the Pantone Color Manager to the patch set. And load an image into the software to see the color palette extracted from the image and added to the patch set. When these large patch sets are used the increased measurement speed becomes a real plus.

You’ll also enjoy special features like Quality Assurance that allows you to evaluate a profile after it has been created. Uniformity check gives you the ability to evaluate the uniformity of white point and luminance on 9 different measured points on your screen. And Trending allows you to track the changes in your monitor over time.

Versions of i1Profiler 1.3 and beyond offer video presets that give you the option to profile your monitor for video editing using NTSC, PAL-SECAM, or Rec. 709 presets. Your video editing can move a step closer to broadcast quality monitors giving you an edge for video editing.

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Uniformity check measure 9 patches to evaluate the uniformity of white point and luminance across the screen

One more addition for the i1Disaplay Pro device is compatibility with NEC SpectraView II and Eizo Color Navigator software. These propietary software programs can get into the hardware and automatically make changes that used to require manual adjustment. The retail version of the i1Display Pro is recognized by both SpectraView II and Color Naivigator. This allows you to use the same device for your wide gamut monitors using their propietary software and use i1Profiler software for your laptop or other displays that don’t utilize the NEC or Eizo software. And you’ll be able to profile projectors with that same device.

sSo… it depends on your particular needs. If you want a wizard driven, easy to use solution choose ColorMunki Display. If you’re a color geek or just someone who wants to have all the settings available then choose i1Display Pro. If you want those special video presets or plan to use a device with SpectraView II or Color Navigator you’ll also want to choose i1Display Pro. And if you’re someone who routinely edits video choose i1Display Pro and get the video presets for popular video formats.

Either way you get the most advance colorimeter on the market today with a newly designed color engine in the software giving you the best quality profile possible.

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• Hello,

  I would like to ask you regarding ColorMunki Display limitations in DisplayCAL latest software. Trying to choose between ColorMunki Display and i1 DisplayPro and intend to use DisplayCAL, which one should I go for and it’s hard to decide not knowing the usage details.

  1. Can I perform this display uniformity test with ColorMunki Display using DisplayCAL ? With original X-Rite software I could do it just using i1 DisplayPro, but maybe DisplayCAL can overcome these limitations as hardware is almost identical..?
  2. I see with original i1 DisplayPro software I can define more custom settings, targets, such as custom white point, custom white luminance, contrast ratio, gamma and etc. Again, question is, do these limitations present with ColorMunki Display using DisplayCAL?
  3. Is this ambient luminance & color sensor in i1 DisplayPro vs just ambient luminance sensor in ColorMunki Display, makes real difference for monitor calibration quality, is it a big thing?
  4. Of course I’m aware, that with COlorMunki Display I’m losing calibration speed and possible fluent use with monitors which have hardware calibration, such as NEC and EIZO, right?
  5. Thank you for your help, waiting for some info 😉

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  1. Yes, for ArgyllCMS ecosystem all i1d3 work in the same (with very little exceptions in very dark readings because of munki timeouts being slower). All functionality is available.
  2. No
  3. Avoid using it for calibration… it does not work as most people think it works. Of course it is useful feature to use in a light box.
  4. Yes, it’s the main drawback. If you plan to get a HW calibration monitor do not even consider munki display and get the pro. Apply the same reasoing if you are going to build huge LUT profiles with >1k patches, get the pro.

  1- GPU calibration with high bitdepth and dithering is visually very close to higbitdepth grey calibration done inside monitor… but monitor’s internal calibration can do a lot more of things than “current” GPU “desktop” calibration: gamut emulation. Also not all GPU are able to work that way regarding calibration… laptops are doomed to suffer GPU calibration banding almost for sure.
  If you are going to get a monitor with HW calibration: NO DOUBTS, get i1DisplayPro. Getting munki is a nonsense in that particular situation.
  BTW: IMHO I’ll stay away from low cost segment in widegamuts (Benq, dell, viewsonic, asus, LG… you now). Color uniformity is NOT GPU correctable at this moment and most of the money you spend going from these to a PA NEC/CG-CS Eizos is going to get better/handpicked color uniformity panels. Some of these low cost models may advertise uniformity correction but it may apply just to brightness (so teh awful green-pink tints in some zones of the screen are going to stay there) or not be usable with HW calibration at the same time.

  2-Yes, you won’t be able to use HW calibration… but maybe it could be done in a indirect way with some public SDK like in those UP Dells and HP Zx series: compute grey correction with DisplayCAL (.cal) then manage to upload it to monitor.
  Anyway too much work, saving 50-70 euro when your are going to spend at least 800 or 1000… I see it pointless unless you do it for fun, or in order to learn and such.

  3-LUT3D for Resolve, madVR… or to remorely (local network reading) measure tablets and phones so you can simulate those screens (even real time without color management like in PA NEC and some CG eizos) in your monitor.

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