[argyllcms] Re: ColorMunki :- Good news and Bad news
- From: Roger Breton <graxx@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: argyllcms@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 19:10:44 -0500
Hi Graeme,
I gather that the Munki Design is UV-cut only.
As for licensing, I heard the limitation of three seats too.
As for drivers, I was told by Ray Cheydleur that they have a SDK.
I have a Design, here. And I can attest having to download 160MB for the
installer. The application works fine on Vista. But I had problems running
the Munki Create application on XP, earlier this week, at the university
where I teach part time. Could be some conflicts with one of their installed
application.
BTW, if you need more fund, please let us know!
Roger
> -----Original Message-----
> From: argyllcms-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:argyllcms-
> bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Graeme Gill
> Sent: 12 décembre 2008 08:06
> To: argyllcms@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [argyllcms] ColorMunki :- Good news and Bad news
>
>
> First the Good News:
>
> Thanks to all those who have contributed donations, there has been
> (just) enough to purchase a ColorMunki Design, so I now have something
> to have a play with over Christmas :-)
>
> Then the bad news:
>
> It seems that although the general arrangement of communications
> to the instrument bears some similarity to the Eye-One Pro, it
> appears to differ in almost every detail. [It kind of amazes
> me that X-Rite has the resources for what amounts to a technically
> unnecessary re-write of both the instrument firmware and corresponding
> driver code. Perhaps the source code wasn't particularly maintainable,
> and they felt they had to re-write it anyway ? Perhaps they have
> lots of developers with nothing to do :-) ??]
>
> The consequence of this is that writing a driver will be no
> straightforward
> task - it's basically similar to starting from scratch again with the
> Eye-One Pro :-(
>
> And the Ugly:
>
> For those contemplating buying the instrument, I note the
> following:
>
> There are no drivers on the CD that comes with it.
> Instead you get to download 130Mbytes of software over the internet
> per platform (Took me just under two hours).
>
> Even though the manual that comes with the instrument claims that
> it will work on Windows 2000, it doesn't install properly, and
> once installed the main application fails to run, exiting with a crash.
> Presumably it works better on Windows XP.
>
> The software has some sort of copy protection scheme that limits
> installation to three computers. Where the installations are registered
> (ie., in the instrument ?), and how they get de-registered is a bit
> of a mystery at the moment. Given that the software isn't particularly
> useful without an instrument, it's also a puzzle why X-Rite
> have gone for this scheme.
>
> An interesting question I have after looking at the instrument,
> is whether the spectrometer module is the same one that is used
> in the i1iSis. Intriguingly the module has a white illumination
> LED on one side, and a similar looking empty slot directly opposite.
> I could well imagine that this slot would be filled with a UV LED,
> something that the i1iSis has...
>
> Graeme Gill.
>
>
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