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Since your test image seems to have the colorchecker grid which I just happen to have right now, it might be worthwhile to print your it and compare the grid. It's bad enough that I can show the print or screen image to a relative who doesn't know anything about photography and their first comment is why is it so brown.

The print is not coming out too dark it actually very closely matches the display but both look way off.

Part of me thinks I should just return it, but then I'll never know if it was the device or me.ĭigitalDog: I do know that like most people I keep my display too bright for normal use, but I'm using it as set by colormunki for this effort. Maybe it's new old stock, or maybe its well used and worn out. I paid about $100 less than market price for a new unit. It also includes a colorchecker card which is a nice bonus, but my understanding is that hasn't been bundled with the device for several years. Inside it just felt handled and like everything had been sitting out for years even though it's all clean and in no way looks marked. Is it possible the colormunki is defective? Maybe the internal calibration tile is discolored? Even though it was advertised as new from the 3rd party amazon seller, the packaging looked a few years old and something about the seals made it feel repackaged. When I use the spot color feature of the colormunki, the sample patches also look too brown on my screen compared to the object I just scanned, but that makes me think the colormunki actually picked up the object correctly and it's showing too brown on my profiled display.

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I could not figure out how to disable all color management on the mac though, which is why I used windows to generate the printer profile. I don't think I can use any other utility to print it. It looks like that utility is to print their charts? The colormunki prints one standard chart and calculates a second chart based on what it feels needs a more precise look.

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I don't have any OSD controls besides brightness and the colormunki software suggests the brightness level to use. John_Wheeler: I'm using a 2011 Macbook Pro, so the monitor is the built in screen. To me it looks a lot more neutral with the profile turned off. I'm not sure how obviously grey the grey area looks. Rodeo_Joe: The print files do match the monitor, they just both look tinted too brown. (I know, I know, but the printer has aged to the point where OEM ink has more than doubled in price and it would be more cost effective to scrap the printer and buy a Pro-100 which I will do eventually - if only I could use that mail in rebate in Canada). After profiling, as I said, it matches the screen very well using the same non-oem ink. Is this normal behaviour for a colormunki photo? Is it possible I have a defective unit or I'm missing a setting? I got the device from amazon through a 3rd party fulfilled by amazon, and I'm not that sure it's really a new unit even though it's supposed to be.Īlso, before I started this little exercise my printer had a strong red tint using non-oem ink. So I don't think it's supposed to be like this and I just have my picture too brown. The brown cast on my display makes everything including the background of this webpage look tinted. I used photoshop CS6 autocolor and autocontrast and it looked pretty good without any profiling. The thing is it's image that I've printed through WHCC before and it came back from them looking perfect and very close to my unprofiled display. And it came out with a brown cast that perfectly matches the way my display was profiled. I copied the profile back to the mac and printed my image.

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I could not get the mac print driver to not attempt to manage the colors, so I used a windows computer to create the profile which worked well. I decided to leave that issue aside and move on to the printer. I tried several times, different versions of the software, positioning the sensor at different angles, etc. I started by using it to profile the monitor and it gave me an unpleasant brown color cast. I just bought a colormunki photo with the intention of profiling the printer. I'm using a Pixma Pro9000 MkII printer with a macbook pro.

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